Baobab - Award Winner!
OTTAWA, March 15, 1998 -- Baobab's video To Leave
Something More has won the special International Cooperation Award
at this year's International Festival of Agricultural Videos (RIVA).
The video festival was held from Feb. 27 - March
1, 1998 in Ste. Hyacinthe, Quebec. A hundred and sixty-four videos and
films from fifteen countries were entered in the competition, which was
adjudicated by an expert panel.
To Leave Something More tells the stories
of two farmer groups in Ecuador who have been working with PROFRIZA, the
Andean Bean Research Network. One group developed a cooperative, quality,
bean seed cooperative to serve the farmers in the Loja region of southern
Ecuador. Commercial seed producers had ignored the region, assuming it
would not be profitable. The second farmer group, situated in the north
of Ecuador, was experimenting with environmentally-sound soil conservation
techniques on the steep mountain slopes where they grew their beans.
To Leave Something More runs 11 minutes
and was produced by Baobab Productions
Inc. for CIAT,
the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. It was produced and
directed by David Mowbray and written by David Mowbray, Alexandra Walter
and Nathan Russell. The video is available in English and Spanish from
CIAT - contact Nathan Russell,
or (in English only) from Baobab Productions Inc.
Baobab Productions Inc.
is one of the world's leading producers of communications material about
research in the developing world. For more information, contact Marlene
Bedford:
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