Highlights:
- Participants started developing campaign materials, including a billboard, a campaign song, a sermon and a puppet show.
- Participants tested their materials with a focus group composed of five local farmers.
- Participants took in focus group feedback for the continued development of their materials.
- Participants visited five farms in the upstream area of the Banganga watershed, reflecting on the practices they observed and engaging in discussions with farmers.
On Day 5 participants were honored to welcome Dr. Elsa Nickel, who leads the Directorate General for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at Germany’s Ministry for Environment (BMU) and Ms. Ruth Irlen, the Ministry’s policy officer for REDD+ and forestry at the workshop. Our funding partners stayed with us for the entire day to take in all the action – from the early morning when teams started drafting their materials together with a local Guru, artist and musician, until the evening when they received feedback from five local farmers.
On Day 6, Konrad Hauptfleisch of IFOAM – Organics International joined us as leader of the technical training on organic agriculture. Together, we embarked on an adventurous trip up the sloping roads taking us closer to the top of the Banganga watershed. Here, the group split into five teams, each visiting a different household to take in the rich diversity of every farm.
