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STORY: EAST AFRICA/ FOOD SECURITY
TRT: 2.15
SOURCE: WORLD BANK AFRICA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 9 JULY 2014, WASHINGTON DC/ FILE
FILE- 31 JANUARY 2013, RIFT VALLEY, KENYA
1. Wide shot, Rift Valley
FILE – 18 SEPTEMBER 2013, TANZANIA
2. Farmer with tiller machine
FILE – 17 SEPTEMBER 2013, TANZANIA
3. Close up, rice processing plant, rice falling
4. Close up, maize falling
FILE – 27 SEPTEMBER 2013, UGANDA
5. Close up, Cassava Research Center, Uganda
FILE- 20 SEPTEMBER 2013, MERU, KENYA
6. Close up, bucket of milk being weighed
FILE – DATE UNKNOWN
7. Close up, cow’s feeding
9 JULY 2014, WASHINGTON DC
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Juergen Voegele, Senior Director, World Bank Agriculture Global Practice:
“Current agricultural practices and processing are the largest user of water on the one hand and they are also a largest contributor globally to greenhouse gasses. We believe that agriculture must become part of the solution, not only the problem moving forward, so moving towards climate smart agriculture will give us that direction. We believe that can be done.”
FILE – 15 SEPTEMBER 2013 TANZANIA
9. Wide shot, rice field,
10. Various shots, researcher teaching villagers
FILE- 27 SEPTEMBER 2013, KAMPALA, UGANDA
13. Med shot, researcher studying Cassava under a microscope, Cassava 14. Research Center
15. Med shot, researcher studying Cassava with tweezers
16. Med shot, researcher studying Cassava in a petri dish
FILE – 14 SEPTEMBER 2012, ETHIOPIA
17. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Zerihun Tadesse, National Wheat Research Coordinator, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Ethiopia:
“In 2010 most of the varieties are susceptible to yellow rust so there was one hundred percent yield loss. But nowadays, more than ten varieties you can see in the farmers’ field, so the distribution of the rust is reduced.”
18. Med shot, wheat
19. Med shot, Tadesse in the field
FILE – 3 OCTOBER 2013, MERU, KENYA
20. Wide shot, cows in a field, dairy farm
21. Med shot, calves in an enclosure
22. Close up, gathering feed into a basket,
23. Med shot, cow eating
9 JULY 2014, WASHINGTON DC
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Juergen Voegele, Senior Director, World Bank Agriculture Global Practice:
“Agriculture is a proven driver of transformational change. These success stories that we have seen here demonstrate the power and benefits of collaboration among countries in the East Africa Region and I think they are a very good example of what we would like to see going forward.”
FILE- 27 SEPTEMBER 2013, KAMPALA, UGANDA
25. Close up, Cassava Plants, Cassava Research Center
26. Med shot, bundled cassava for market
FILE – DATE UNKNOW
27. Various shots, workers carrying sack
Most experts agree that priming Sub-Saharan Africa’s farm economy – which typically accounts for between 30 to 40 percent of gross domestic product and 65 to 70 percent of the labor force – is vital for ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on the continent.
Now four countries in eastern Africa – Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – are taking steps to marshal the power of science to boost food and dairy production and reduce disease, which in turn puts more money into farmers’ pockets.
Applying science is also creating, “climate smart agriculture” - reducing the environmental footprint.
SOUNDBITE (English) Juergen Voegele, Senior Director, World Bank Agriculture Global Practice:
“Current agricultural practices and processing are the largest user of water on the one hand and they are also a largest contributor globally to greenhouse gasses. We believe that agriculture must become part of the solution, not only the problem moving forward, so moving towards climate smart agriculture will give us that direction. We believe that can be done.”
In Tanzania, the revival of a 520-acre irrigation scheme has made year-round cultivation of rice is possible.
Farmers have now formed cooperatives and many fishing families have become rice farmers.
When the tuber crop was dying from brown streak disease in Uganda, advanced detection techniques developed at the National Crops Resources Research Institute ensured bountiful harvests that helped to stave off disaster and prevented farmers from being pushed deeper into poverty.
Wheat farmers faced a crisis in Ethiopia because of widespread yellow rust disease. Over the past three years, scientists and wheat breeders have developed new wheat varieties that are resistant to the disease.
Yields have increased, farmers are able to sell surplus wheat, and a mill has opened to meet the growing demand for high-quality flour.
SOUNDBITE (English) Zerihun Tadesse, National Wheat Research Coordinator, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Ethiopia:
“In 2010 most of the varieties are susceptible to yellow rust so there was one hundred percent yield loss. But nowaday, more than ten varieties you can see in the farmers’ field so the distribution of the rust is reduced.”
Low milk production, disease and poor quality fodder are holding back thousands of dairy farmers in Kenya from lucrative market opportunities.
New, healthy breeds, advanced insemination techniques and improved fodder quality that combines protein-rich crop residues are all helping to raise the quality and productivity of livestock.
SOUNDBITE (English) Juergen Voegele, Senior Director, World Bank Agriculture Global Practice:
“Agriculture is a proven driver of transformational change. These success stories that we have seen here demonstrate the power and benefits of collaboration among countries in the East Africa Region and I think they are a very good example of what we would like to see going forward.”
The initiatives were done under the aegis of the East African Agricultural Productivity Program (EAAPP) and financed by the World Bank and partners.
Signaling the importance of agriculture, the African Union Commission has designated 2014 as the “Year of Agriculture and Food Security.” This was the theme of the recent African Union Commission (AUC) Summit held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
