Fifteen years young
In May of 1995 Baobab Productions started to shoot its first documentary videos in Colombia. The company, incorporated in March of that year, had been commissioned by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) to shoot two short features, one about new, pesticide free techniques to grow beans on the steep Andean slopes of Colombia and the other about land care and seed cooperatives in central Ecuador. The resulting films, Every Corner of the Land and To Leave Something More were used by CIAT to help raise funds for their projects. "To Leave Something More" went on to win first prize at an international film festival. Baobab has never looked back.
Building rural radio capacity for Africa
Baobab Productions is providing consulting services to Canadian NGO, Farm Radio International. We are helping them design a training and capacity strengthening desk to be a service to rural radio program makers in Africa. Farm Radio International is already working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research best practices in rural radio in 5 African countries to see how effective radio can be in helping farmers make choices about agricultural practices and technologies that could improve their family livelihoods.