Overall targets
To increase knowledge and awareness about healthy and sustainable tree crops in the Lango speaking farmer population of Apac, Oyam, Kwania, Amolatar, Kole, Dokolo, Olebtong, Otuke, and Lira District in Northern Uganda.
Immediate targets
1. Plants and Health Cooperative Society (PHCS) will produce 24 radio programs in Radio Divine. The programs inspire and help farmers to plant more trees that can lead to nutritional benefits, forest-based income generation, and endurance of weather conditions due to climate change, when the farmers know how to manage them the best way.
Target groups
The 1.8 mill.lango speakers in Northern Uganda including: 1.The farmers living in or near the towns and trading centers being close to a market for fruits and having little land who can use their small land in a more intensive way by intercropping with trees. 2. Small farmers living deep in the countryside with small depleted pieces of land without trees where the soil and the crops dry very fast during drought periods, and where the loam runs away during heavy rain falls. They are very much in need of acting to adapt to climate changes and learn about the need for climate mitigation. 3.The 350 members of PHCS. will gain by new subjects and repetition and deepening of the knowledge already distributed to them by PHCS’ educated facilitators. Long distances between the PHCS’ main office and members’ locations are a big problem, and in this way the radio programs will be a useful tool also to reach the members.
Resume
Målet er, at folk i det nordlige Uganda får mere viden om træer, der kan forbedre sundhedstilstanden og/eller lede til indkomst, forbedrede levevilkår og dyrkningsforhold. Træer kan bedre klare tørke og voldsom regn end etårige landbrugsafgrøder, de kan holde på jorden i voldsom regn og faldne blade opbygger humuslaget, hvorved jordens frugtbarhed øges. Desuden oplagrer humus og træer CO2. Der er et stort behov for en sådan viden i den del af landbefolkningen der er ’functionel illiterate’. Derfor vil Plants and Health Cooperative Society (PHCS) producere 24 radioprogrammer om emnet. Medlemmerne af PHCS har delvis fået denne viden gennem et igangværende projekt. Som en mindre del af dette har kooperativet lavet en del radioprogrammer, der også har rettet sig mod den bredere befolkning, men der er behov for mere viden og en indsats for at flere får kendskab til programmerne. PHCS vil derfor samarbejde med de klubber, som lytterne af Radio Divine, har lavet ude i lokalområderne. Møder og praktiske demonstrationer i samarbejde med klubberne er en god metode til at nå ud til befolkningen og få feed back på, om udsendelserne dækker behovene for viden og erfaringsudveksling.