Between 25 and 28 March, a delegation made up of the technical team from the World Food Programme (WFP) Centre of Excellence against Hunger Brazil, the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG, in Portuguese) and the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC, in Portuguese) carried out a technical mission to Tanzania to take part in the closing ceremony of the Beyond Cotton project in the country. The mission also carried out technical support activities with the farmers taking part in the project, as well as capturing images and conducting interviews with those involved in the project for a documentary film that will show the results of the project in the three participating countries: Tanzania, Benin and Mozambique.
During the first part of the mission, farmers participating in the Beyond Cotton project in the districts of Misungwi, Magu and Kwimba took part in training on water treatment, building and installing a handmade filter, making handmade soap, as well as culinary workshops, conversation circles on commensality and semiological analysis of the nutrition of children and adults. In the field of agriculture, the mission sought to provide training in the construction of underground dams, monitoring and sampling pests in the field and the production and application of natural insecticides.
At the same time as the training sessions, ABC’s communications team captured images and conducted interviews with the farmers and the Brazilian and Tanzanian institutions involved. The images sought to demonstrate the results achieved and document how the project participants had their lives impacted by the actions of the project, which taught the farmers how to build, for example, 16,000 litre plate cisterns to collect rainwater, ecological cookers, economic beds, seed drills, motor cultivators, school gardens, handmade looms, as well as workshops on the integral use of food, water care, good agricultural practices, among other activities.
The mission ended on 28 March with a closing event for the project in Nguge Village in the Misungwi district of Mwanza. The event was attended by the Brazilian side of UFCG, ABC, the Brazilian embassy in Tanzania and the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil. The Tanzanian side included the Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture, the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), the Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB), the World Food Programme in Tanzania and the farmers who took part in the project. The project continues in Benin and Mozambique.
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