Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers
Over the past several decades, researchers and extension agents have described methods that cowpea farmers can use to reduce insect damage to the cowpea crop in the field and in storage. Some of these methods, which are based on both scientific research and indigenous knowledge, are currently bei...
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| author | Bello, J. Seufferheld, F. Agunbiade, T. Steele, L.D. Guillot, D. Ba, Malick N. Binso-Dabire, C.L. Baoua, I. N'Diaye, M. Tamo, Manuele Pittendrigh, R. |
| author_browse | Agunbiade, T. Ba, Malick N. Baoua, I. Bello, J. Binso-Dabire, C.L. Guillot, D. N'Diaye, M. Pittendrigh, R. Seufferheld, F. Steele, L.D. Tamo, Manuele |
| author_facet | Bello, J. Seufferheld, F. Agunbiade, T. Steele, L.D. Guillot, D. Ba, Malick N. Binso-Dabire, C.L. Baoua, I. N'Diaye, M. Tamo, Manuele Pittendrigh, R. |
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| description | Over the past several decades, researchers and extension agents have described
methods that cowpea farmers can use to reduce insect damage to the cowpea crop
in the field and in storage. Some of these methods, which are based on both scientific
research and indigenous knowledge, are currently being used in local, regional , national,
and transnational extension programs. Cowpea farmers in Africa and other developing
regions, however, often remain unaware of the methods based on scientific research
because the farmers are low-literate and the information may be available only in a written
form. Farmers also may remain unaware of methods based on indigenous knowledge
because such information usually remains local. These problems are exacerbated by the
limited resources of extension programs. Here we describe how pest control information
in the form of short animations can be transferred to low-literate farmers via cell-phone
technology and through the World Wide Web. Voice overlays in a diversity of languages
can be easily added to these animations so that ideas can be efficiently shared across
cultural groups. The animated videos, which are being developed by the organization
Scientific Animations Without Borders™ (SAWBO), can be viewed on cell phones and can
be transmitted between cell phones using Bluetooth® technology. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1088432024-01-12T12:42:39Z Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers Bello, J. Seufferheld, F. Agunbiade, T. Steele, L.D. Guillot, D. Ba, Malick N. Binso-Dabire, C.L. Baoua, I. N'Diaye, M. Tamo, Manuele Pittendrigh, R. cowpeas farmers technology indigenous knowledge information technology west africa extension programmes scientific research research Over the past several decades, researchers and extension agents have described methods that cowpea farmers can use to reduce insect damage to the cowpea crop in the field and in storage. Some of these methods, which are based on both scientific research and indigenous knowledge, are currently being used in local, regional , national, and transnational extension programs. Cowpea farmers in Africa and other developing regions, however, often remain unaware of the methods based on scientific research because the farmers are low-literate and the information may be available only in a written form. Farmers also may remain unaware of methods based on indigenous knowledge because such information usually remains local. These problems are exacerbated by the limited resources of extension programs. Here we describe how pest control information in the form of short animations can be transferred to low-literate farmers via cell-phone technology and through the World Wide Web. Voice overlays in a diversity of languages can be easily added to these animations so that ideas can be efficiently shared across cultural groups. The animated videos, which are being developed by the organization Scientific Animations Without Borders™ (SAWBO), can be viewed on cell phones and can be transmitted between cell phones using Bluetooth® technology. 2012 2020-07-22T11:24:09Z 2020-07-22T11:24:09Z Conference Proceedings https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108843 en Limited Access International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Bello, J., Seufferheld, F., Agunbiade, T., Steele, L.D., Guillot, D., Ba, M.N., ... & Pittendrigh, R. (2012). Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers. In Innovative Research along the Cowpea Value Chain. In: Proceedings of the Fifth World Cowpea Conference on improving livelihoods in the cowpea value chain through advancement in science, (p. 369-380), 27 Sept. - 1 Oct., Saly, Senegal. |
| spellingShingle | cowpeas farmers technology indigenous knowledge information technology west africa extension programmes scientific research research Bello, J. Seufferheld, F. Agunbiade, T. Steele, L.D. Guillot, D. Ba, Malick N. Binso-Dabire, C.L. Baoua, I. N'Diaye, M. Tamo, Manuele Pittendrigh, R. Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers |
| title | Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers |
| title_full | Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers |
| title_fullStr | Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers |
| title_short | Scientific animations without borders: cell-phone videos for cowpea farmers |
| title_sort | scientific animations without borders cell phone videos for cowpea farmers |
| topic | cowpeas farmers technology indigenous knowledge information technology west africa extension programmes scientific research research |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108843 |
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