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Equal footing: working together to face climate change in Uganda

Small holder farmer, Mrs Ssekide, joined the Balyejjusa farmer field school and convinced of the benefits persuaded her husband to join too. She tells her story of how successful working as a team has proven to be. In Uganda, almost 80% of households rely upon agriculture for their livelihood, and following her example could prove highly beneficial for the nation’s well being.

Duration 6m37s

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Video Type B Roll Video

Date 12/13/2016

File size 404.98 MB

Unique ID UF2T3P

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Shotlist LOCATIONS: Village near Ngoma Town (Nakaseke District), Kitenga Sub-County (Mubende District), Uganda

SHOT: October 2016

SOUND: Natural, English, Luganda

TRT: 6’37”

SHOTLIST:

Village near Ngoma Town, Nakaseke District:

1. Pan up from chicks walking by on dry ground to L/S of a farmer field school meeting taking place at a hut in the distance

2. C/U of a sign for the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) Uganda

3. W/S of a farmer talking to a trainer

4. M/C/U of a farmer (from behind) speaking to a trainer

5. C/U of a female farmer listening

6. C/U of a male farmer listening

7. W/S of a female farmer pointing at an action plan with a stick

8. C/U of the female farmer talking to the group

9. Pan up M/C/U of the plan they have devised together

Mrs Ssekide’s Farm, Kitenga Sub-County, Mubende District

10. M/C/U of Mrs Ssekide walking with a bowl of on her head

11. W/S of Mrs Ssekide walking past her husband who is connecting up the water harvesting tank to a pump

12. M/C/U of Mr Ssekide cycling on a foot pump

13. C/U of Mrs Ssekde watering

14. M/C/U pan on the greens being watered

15. W/S of Mrs and Mr Ssekide watering the kitchen garden

16. W/S of Mrs and Mr Ssekide picking greens from the garden

17. C/U of Mrs Ssekide

18. C/U of a bowl with the leaves

19. W/S of Mrs Ssekide walking away from the greens

20. C/U of a bowl of ripe tomatoes

21. M/C/U pan of Mrs Ssekide picking tomatoes to a full bowl

22. M/C/U pan of Mrs Ssekide walking past towards her farmhouse carrying her produce

23. M/C/U of Mrs Ssekide’s daughter and mother

24. M/C/U tilt up of Mrs Ssekide counting money

25. C/U of Mrs Ssekide’s hands handling a shilling note

26. W/S of Mr Ssekdie walking in the farm past a goat and her kids

27. M/C/U of the kids feeding from their mother

28. M/C/U of Mr Ssekide starting a machine for shredding fodder

29. W/S of Mr and Mrs Ssekide working together shredding fodder

30. C/U of the shredded fodder

31. C/U pan from Mrs Ssekdie to her husband and the fodder being fed into the machine

32. W/S of the couple working

33. W/S of the goats locked up in a wooden structure

34. C/U of a goat eating leaves

35. W/S of poultry in a shack

36. W/S of Mr Ssekide and a young man carrying feed to the pigs in a pigsty

37. M/C/U of Mr Ssekide with the feed

38. C/U of the pig eating

39. M/C/U of Mr Ssekide lifting the feed into the pigsty

40. M/C/U pan up from a tray of eggs to Mrs Ssekide walking over to her biogas cooking stove

41. C/U of Mrs Ssekide lighting the biogas stove

42. C/U of Mrs Ssekide’s face as she cooks

43. C/U of an omelette being cooked

44. M/C/U of Mrs Ssekide putting the omelette on a plate

45. M/C/U of Mr Ssekide stirring manure with a spade in a biogas digester

46. W/S of Mr Ssekide emptying the manure

47. M/C/U pan on Mrs ssekide walking up to her daughter and mother with the omelette and sting down

48. C/U of Mrs Ssekide

49. M/C/U of the three sitting eating

50. C/U of Mrs Ssekide’s daughter eating

51. C/U pan from plate to Mrs Ssekide’s mother eating the omelette

52. W/S of the three sitting on the step eating with their dog looking on

53.W/S of Mr Ssekide digging his compost with Mrs Ssekide gathering dried grass behind

54. M/C/U of Mrs Ssekide picking up dried vegetation

55. W/S of Mrs Ssekide adding it to the compost heap

56. C/U of the compost being worked

57. W/S of the couple as they harvest a bunch of bananas

58. C/U of Mrs Ssekide picking up the bunch of bananas

59. W/S of Mrs Ssekide carrying the bunch of bananas on her head in her field

60. M/C/U of Mrs Ssekide carrying the bunch of bananas on her head

61. W/S pan of Mrs Ssekide carrying the bunch of bananas as she walks towards her farmhouse past the biogas ingestor

62. SOT 1: Mrs Ssekide, Farmer (Luganda)

When I joined the Balyejjusa farmer field school, during the training I realised that I had to work together with my husband to farm correctly. Farming needs the family to work together as a team. Because if you don’t co-operate then the farming will not be successful. That’s why I convinced my husband to join the farmer field school in order for us to work as a team.

63. SOT 2: Mr Ssekide, Farmer (Luganda)

At first I wasn’t a group member. My wife was a group member and she shared what she learnt with me. Which I have been using. We were trained and encouraged to work hard to handle climate change challenges and to meet our basic needs. The time comes when we can’t grow crops during the dry season but now we grow tomatoes and earn money. Traders buy from us and the locals too.

64. SOT 3: Mr Ssekide, Farmer (Luganda)

My wife is responsible for the poultry, the goats and the garden. When she gets money she puts it in her account. She has her own bank account. I also have a bank account. We have two children at the University. If I contribute half, she also contributes half towards the school fees. And with the rest of the money she caters to her own and her parents’ family needs.

65. SOT 4: Mrs Ssekide, Farmer (Luganda)

The piggery is one of the main things that has really contributed to improving our lives. I started in a simple way by raising the local breeds. But now I have managed to buy land. At first I was just a tenant but now I own the land. Who am I, a mere farmer, to own land with a land title!

66. SOT 5: Mrs Ssekide, Farmer (Luganda)

With the biogas enterprise my husband recognised that I was working really hard. And so he said we should start a biogas enterprise. That way I could make tea and cook food quickly and easily after work. So now when I come back from the fields, I can make tea and cook dinner quickly. Even someone from Kampala might be without charcoal but here I can use biogas energy.

Many farmers don’t benefit from farming because they don’t think of farming as a business. People often think farmers are failures in their lives. That we didn’t go to school. That’s how people consider farmers to be. But the message I send to my fellow farmers is that they should have a passion for farming. They should make it a business that provides income for the home so you can educate your children. A farmer can educate their children just as someone who is working for the Government can. Because I have educated my children through farming.

ENDS

Script In Uganda, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation and the European Union are working together to encourage farmers to adapt to climate change. At the heart of this initiative is the farmer field school, where farmers come together to receive training, share experiences and to learn from each other. Mrs Ssekide is one of the farmers who joined the Balyejjusa farmer field school and convinced of the benefits, persuaded her husband to join too.

Now, as well as providing nutritional food for the family, Mrs Ssekide can sell her surplus produce locally, which means that she no longer has to ask her husband for money and their relationship is now on a more equal footing. As well as taking responsibility for the kitchen garden, goats and poultry, Mrs Ssekide has invested part of her savings in a piggery and eventually she was also able to buy land. All these improvements have also brought about changes which lessen the workload and improve family life.

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