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FAO / EMPOWERING WOMEN IN SCIENCE
STORY: FAO / EMPOWERING WOMEN IN SCIENCE
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SOURCE: FAO
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LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS
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28 DECEMBER 2023, KONOU VILLAGE, DÉPARTEMENT DE JACQUEVILLE, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
1. Aerial shot, village
2. Aerial shot, bus travelling
3. Wide shot, students walking
4. Med shot, Daud Mone Dèsirèe, and other students greeting local farmers
5. Close up, Daud Mone Dèsirèe
27 DECEMBER 2023, ABIDJAN, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Daud Mone Désirée, statistician:
"As a child, I used to wonder, after finishing an orange, I'd take the seed, put it in the ground. And then a few days later, I see leaves and petals. In fact, I used to wonder, what was behind that mechanism?"
7. Aerial shot, Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ENSEA)
8. Wide shot, computer lab
9. Close up, computer lab, Daud Mone Désirée talking
10. Wide shot, Daud Mone Désirée talking
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Daud Mone Désirée, statistician:
“I am the first in my family to work in statistics, handling numbers.”
28 DECEMBER 2023, KONOU VILLAGE, DÉPARTEMENT DE JACQUEVILLE, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
12. Wide shot, farmers at work
13. Med shot, farmers cleaning manioc
14. Aerial shot, farmers loading a truck with oil palm fruits
15. Wide shot, farmers loading a truck with oil palm fruits
16. Med shot, Nayo Ankouvi, FAO statistician, talking with Daud Mone Désirée and other students
27 DECEMBER 2023, ABIDJAN, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Daud Mone Désirée, statistician:
"Statistics can be beneficial for African agriculture in the sense that, with the data, we will now have, thanks to us, the newly trained agricultural statisticians, we could provide figures that will enable our policymakers to make informed decisions based on the actual state of our lands and the information we collect."
18. Aerial shot, Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ENSEA)
19. Tracking shot, students arriving at the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ENSEA)
20. Med shot, Daud Mone Désirée studying
21. Wide shot, Nayo Ankouvi, FAO statistician, teaching
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Daud Mone Désirée, statistician:
"I believe that data manipulation benefits all our hardworking farmers, and everyone involved in agronomy. This is because it could enable us to make forecasts about the yields they achieve and even the types of crops to use."
28 DECEMBER 2023, KONOU VILLAGE, DÉPARTEMENT DE JACQUEVILLE, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
23. Wide shot, bus with students arriving at village
24. Wide shot, rubber trees plantation
25. Close up, liquid oozing from tree
26. Wide shot, students in a rubber tree cultivation
27. Med shot, students listening
28. Close up, hands touching rubber tree
29. Med shot, student making an incision on rubber tree
30. SOUNDBITE (French) Nayo Ankouvi, Statistician, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
"In particular, two themes of interest, in agriculture and agricultural statistics, are production and yield. It also includes areas of cultivation. Therefore, the theme that brings us to the field today is measuring yield and setting up yield squares. But specifically, to understand yield, one must understand how it is produced. This is why we are in a rubber plantation today, to observe tapping, how tapping occurs, how latex is collected, and how yields are measured afterward."
27 DECEMBER 2023, ABIDJAN, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
31. Wide shot, Nayo Ankouvi, FAO statistician, teaching
32. Close up, student listening
33. Med shot, students taking notes
10 JANUARY 2024, ROME, ITALY, FAO HEADQUARTERS
33. SOUNDBITE (English) Neli Georgieva Mihaylova, Senior Statistician, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
“Since 2012, FAO has been the proud host for the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics to address the decline in the agricultural statistics systems in many developing countries."
27 DECEMBER 2024, ABIDJAN, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
34. Med shot, student studying
35. Close up, Hands typing on a keyboard
10 JANUARY 2024, ROME, ITALY, FAO HEADQUARTERS
36. SOUNDBITE (English) Neli Georgieva Mihaylova, Senior Statistician, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
"In 2023, 48 scholars from 24 African countries have access to this program and graduated successfully. And we are very proud that 43 percent of them were women."
28 DECEMBER 2024, KONOU VILLAGE, DÉPARTEMENT DE JACQUEVILLE, CÔTE D'IVOIRE
37. Med shot, students taking notes
38. Wide shot, students meeting farmers
39. Tilt down, Daud Mone Désirée taking notes
40. Top shot, Konou Village
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in today's rapidly evolving world, science and innovation play a crucial role in addressing global challenges. However, despite progress, women and girls still face significant barriers to pursuing science careers.
Daud Mone Dèsirèe, a 27-year-old statistician from Côte d'Ivoire, never imagined that her love for nature would lead her to work with numbers. When she was a child, she loved to cultivate and see plants grow.
SOUNDBITE (French) Daud Mone Désirée, statistician:
"As a child, I used to wonder, after finishing an orange, I'd take the seed, put it in the ground. And then a few days later, I see leaves and petals. In fact, I used to wonder, what was behind that mechanism?"
Daud began studying agronomy before discovering agricultural statistics and dedicating her life to it. Today she is the first statistician in her family.
SOUNDBITE (French) Daud Mone Désirée, statistician:
“I am the first in my family to work in statistics, handling numbers.”
She explains that those numbers are vital for improving agricultural production and that an emerging generation of young African statisticians, particularly women, are working to contribute to African nations' sustainable development.
SOUNDBITE (French) Daud Mone Désirée, statistician:
"Statistics can be beneficial for African agriculture in the sense that, with the data, we will now have, thanks to us, the newly trained agricultural statisticians, we could provide figures that will enable our policymakers to make informed decisions based on the actual state of our lands and the information we collect."
Statisticians are essential in gathering and analyzing data crucial to understanding food security challenges. Developing nations, however, lack quality data. Without the information they need, decision-makers face challenges in taking evidence-based actions.
In Africa, FAO has been supporting young people, particularly women, to access high-quality statistical education through scholarships for a Master's in Agricultural Statistics to help close the agricultural data gap.
Daud is one of the many students converging from across the continent at the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ENSEA) in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, to unlock their potential to contribute to addressing food security issues.
Her goal is to help farmers become more productive and sustainable by increasing crop yields and adopting sustainable agricultural production practices.
SOUNDBITE (French) Daud Mone Désirée, statistician:
"I believe that data manipulation is beneficial for all our hardworking farmers, and everyone involved in agronomy. This is because it could enable us to make forecasts about the yields they achieve and even the types of crops to use."
In addition to classroom learning at ENSEA, master’s students are sent to the field for practical study, to see how their theoretical training applies to the agricultural world.
SOUNDBITE (French) Nayo Ankouvi, FAO statistician:
"In particular, two themes of interest, in agriculture and agricultural statistics, are production and yield. It also includes areas of cultivation. Therefore, the theme that brings us to the field today is measuring yield and setting up yield squares. But specifically, to understand yield, one must understand how it is produced. This is why we are in a rubber plantation today, to observe tapping, how tapping occurs, how latex is collected, and how yields are measured afterward."
Scholarships are provided by the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), a statistical program hosted by FAO focusing on strengthening countries' capacity to implement agricultural surveys and complementing data collections already existing on the African continent.
SOUNDBITE (English) Neli Georgieva Mihaylova, FAO senior Statistician:
“Since 2012, FAO has been the proud host for the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics to address the decline in the agricultural statistics systems in many developing countries."
One of the key elements of the program is supporting women in agricultural statistics.
UN Scientific Education and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) data shows that less than 30 percent of researchers around the world are female, and this number does not vary for sub-Saharan Africa.
SOUNDBITE (English) Neli Georgieva Mihaylova, FAO Senior Statistician:
"In 2023, 48 scholars from 24 African countries have access to this program and graduated successfully. And we are very proud that 43 percent of them were women."
Empowered by their training, most students in the programme return to their countries after completing their studies contributing to strengthening the agricultural statistics sector thus promoting food security.
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated on February 11th.
The theme for 2024 is “Women and Girls in Science Leadership, a New Era for Sustainability.”
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