The presenters coach them to collect rain from gutters, plant sorghum varieties that thrive on a short rainy season, and add hardy trees to prevent soil erosion. Our shamba is 18 acres on the north side of lake naivasha in the rift valley in kenya. Working with nature to grow edible crops read now pdf online. It was a super fun filled day planting a variety of trees and plants, that will one day grow into a lush food forest. The study findings of multiple regressions revealed that the level of follow up of direct extension via radio and tv agricultural programs was significantly associated with age, level of education. By the end of the day, we had all the kids settled down reading the shamba shape up leaflets even the ones which couldnt read. Kenyas best and only reality show for struggling farms. Jul 08, 2014 shamba shape up was featured in cnn, africa voices change makers. This is a chili that borders on extra hot often twice the heat of a cayenne. Shamba shape up sn 09 ep 10 conservation agriculture.
Shamba shape up host tonny njuguna says, all the farmers we visited have commented on the unreliability of the weather. Shamba shape up is a wildly popular reality show, with upwards of 10 million weekly viewers across africa. Permaculture blog barefoot soulutions permaculture design. Posts about reading university written by shambashapeup. Sep 05, 2019 the prairie fire pepper has a christmas light look with yellow as part of the mix, along with green, red, orange, purple, and cream. Katharine works in the shamba shape ups communications department and supports the online following on social media. The app is well designed to be used on your phone and tablet. It has a neutral peppery flavor behind the heat, so this. The study findings of multiple regressions revealed that the level of followup of direct extension via radio and tv agricultural programs was significantly associated with age, level of education. East africas favourite farming tv show provides you with practical advice to improve your shamba. Shamba shape up sn 08 ep 07 onions, layer chicken, fodder crops. We believe that knowledge is power and that is why as part of the shamba community you will have access to our informative and comprehensive nutrition and fitness seminars.
Fondren signed up 10 percent of vicksburgs 25,000 residents, most of who were taking charge of their health and nutrition for the first time. Shamba shape up is aimed at giving both the farmer and the viewer the tools they need to improve productivity and income on their farms. Based in kenya, shamba shape up is kenyas first makeover television programme with an agricultural twist. It has an estimated audience of more than 11 million people, and is kenyas. A beautiful opportunity came up at the last advanced permaculture certification course i attended.
Shamba shape up shamba shape up is africas most famous farming tv show, watched by 10 million people every week. This video, which is an episode of the kenyan tv show shamba shape up, is available in english and swahili. Produced by mediae company in nairobi, each series guides smallscale farmers in improved pest management, irrigation, cattle rearing, poultry keeping, and other techniques, in. The materials include a lesson plan, powerpoint presentation and pupils activity sheets. Shamba shape up and ishamba have started a competition today called let it rain you can win up to 100,000 ksh by guessing the correct start of the rains in your area. Samba krishnas son this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title shamba.
Shamba shape up 5 million rural families twice a week 12 months of the year kenya, uganda and tanzania englishswahili know zone 2. By feeding timely, tested and effective agricultural information to farmers through an entertaining approach, shamba shape up is forging a new era of food security and economic opportunity for all africans. Shamba definition at, a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms and translation. Download this free app and be connected to the world with citizen news. Shamba shape up english ir maize, crop protection, poultry, africa indigenous vegetables shamba shape up spraying your tomato crop shamba shape up swahili beans, fertiliser, ecf. She talked to ccafs staff in 2014 about what shes taken away from the series. Shamba shape up, the kenyan reality tv show for farmers, has teamed up with icraf and icrisat in a series 6 episode dedicated to highly nutritious trees and crops that you can grow on your shamba farm. Shamba shape up series 5 shamba shape up series 5 was produced as a 6 month long 26 week series to cover the entire growing season in one series.
Barefoot soulutions and kilifi new year joined forces in creating a permaculture garden with the help of all the course participants. Africas encounter with a new world crop 15002000 free pdf. East africas favourite farming tv show provides you with practical advice to improve your. Apr 30, 2014 by katharine macmahon media manager, shamba shape up. Viewers can also text in specific questions or request free leaflets on a particular topic. Aug 14, 20 local poultry farming has proven to be a lucrative business. This complex agricultural production system has evolved over time through scientific discoveries and other innovations. Shamba shape up each has a lesson outline, a powerpoint presentation, a broad range of activities for pupils and further information for teachers. Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visit the webmasters page for free fun content. Its almost candylike in color, but the heat is anything but. Agriculture today is about so much more than a farmer simply planting a seed, rearing a cow or catching a fish. By katharine macmahon media manager, shamba shape up.
The word shamba is a swahili word meaning garden just as a seed contains great potential to become a mature and productive plant, so do our children have within them what it will take to grow into a responsible contributing adult. Shamba chef, a television and radio series on cooking and nutrition, demonstrated practical ways for families to improve their kitchens and diets through cookoffs, kitchen makeovers, and recipe demonstrations from popular kenyan chefs. In its first season, which aired from september to december 2017, each episode highlighted real families in kenya as they learned how to prepare more nutritious. In these seminars our trained staff will cover many different topics related to health and wellness. Those building a new coop often ask for plans for the perfect chicken coop.
Series 10 leaflets series 9 leaflets series 8 leaflets series 7 leaflets series 6 leaflets series 5 leaflets series 4 leaflets series 3 leaflets. Mellyne ongango shamba shape up markets expert tel. Dec 26, 20 now in its fourth season, the show, shamba shape up, has become hugely popular in east africa. In shamba shape up season 4 episode 1 and 2, and shamba shape up season 3 episode 3,8, and it was discovered that small scale farmers in nakuru and bungoma lacked the necessary. Hand out shamba shape up instructions and one of the example cards from shamba shape up to each group. Shamba shape up ssu is makeover style tv show produced by the mediae company in east africa and funded by a range of sponsors. Presenters and agriculture specialists work with farm households on farm makeovers. The show guides smallscale farmers on how to improve agricultural productivity on their farms.
Shamba shape up english ir maize, crop protection, poultry, africa indigenous vegetables shamba shape up swahili beans, fertiliser, ecf shamba shape up english. Shot throughout kenya, the series will delve into real households to explore new ways to cook, making it quicker, safer, cleaner and at half the cost. The shamba shape up website has recently been updated to accommodate the news and interest surrounding the new series. Each week the shape up team visit a different farm in a different area of the country. The make over style show aims to give both farmer and the audience the tools they need to improve productivity and income on their farms. Citizen news app offers you the latest breaking news, sports, entertainment, politics, business from kenya and around the world. Part 1 how to increase maize crop video dailymotion. Flesh is deep crimson with good granular texture and high sugar content 12%. It is set a short distance back from the lake shore and has gently sloping welldrained volcanic soil with rocky sections, with an average annual rainfall of approximately 650 mm, which falls mainly between april and june and again in october november. Clauer, poultry extension specialist, animal and poultry sciences small scale poultry coops seem to be built in almost every possible shape and size. Here is some more information, and thanks for watching the show on citizen tv kenya icrafs episodes have been developed by in collaboration with the ecifad fruiting africa project team. Shamba chef is the new sister tv program to shamba shape up, which will primarily focus on cleaner and more efficient cook stove adoption, as well as tackling wider issues associated with nutrition.
Season 1 shamba chef episodes were adapted for radio, which aired weekly on one of kenyas leading national radio stations. Leaflets are also free, although standard sms rates apply for requesting information from shamba shape up. Patricia gichinga is the series director and production manager. Bell industries is committed to bringing simple, valuable and useful agricultural technologies to farmers. Permaculture blog barefoot soulutions permaculture. As the new season of shamba shape up, kenyas hit tv series, gets under way, cimmyt and the african agricultural technology foundation aatf have been meeting farmers across the region to discuss exciting new developments to grow higheryielding, diseaseresistant maize. Ive learned many, many things ann kavuu is a smallscale farmer and shamba shape up fan in machakos county, kenya. Shamba shape up gives pupils an opportunity to develop a script or video clip for a kenyan tv series designed to support small scale farmers deal with the affects of change. The report, which was commissioned by reading university in the uk, and was carried out by africa enterprise challenge fund aecf, focuses on the changes brought about on the farms of viewers of shamba shape ups last 4 series.
Home edition but with chicken coops and composting. According to dont lose the plot dltp a television program produced by the mediae company whose other productions include shamba shape up, onion farming can give you an income of of ksh 354,000 per acre this after deducting your expenses. Dec 10, 2015 shamba shape up gives pupils an opportunity to develop a script or video clip for a kenyan tv series designed to support small scale farmers deal with the affects of change. Once you sign up, you will also receive agri tips on crop and livestock, market prices and weather updates. However, few plans for small poultry houses are available. Groups research the web links to find solutions for their shambas problem resulting from the change given. Celebrating science and innovation in agriculture farming first. Shamba shape up a farm makeover tv show in east africa. Jul 18, 2014 shamba shape up shamba is a television series in kenya helping smallscale farmers give their farms a make over. Each week, two hosts cheerily descend on a struggling farm. Shamba shape up is a reality style tv show designed to educate east africas rapidly growing rural audience.
What a young seed, and a child, need is nourishment, care, and light or hope to reach their. The pilot episode of shamba shape up and johns farm. It takes a whole ecosystem and a host of actors to work together to produce the food we need for a population of more than seven billion people. Business minded young professionals in the country have no reason to spare this field to earn the much needed extra cash. Over the years many distinguished news outlets have taken an interest into the work shamba shape up is doing, and has written about it. There is also a free poster to accompany the material. A farm makeover reality tv show filmed in kenya where the hosts visit a new farm each week to see how experts can help the farmer increase their productivity. They look for issues, tell the owners what theyre doing wrong, and give tips on how to shape up. Shamba shape up cost breakdown of keeping chickens.
The program is free to watch for anyone with access to broadcast television. Financial literacy for small farmers in kenya via tv. Funded by dfids aecf the africa entrepreneurship challenge fund, shamba shape up profiles a farm each week and suggests improvements that demonstrate financial principles and teaches farmers how to grow more food. In kenya, the shamba shape up reality tv show airs every weekend on a popular local channel. One such program in east africa, shamba shape up, a locally produced tv series on agricultural development, demonstrates practical, accessible, and affordable methods that may help smallscale farmers to effect improvements on their farms. The mediae company created a home makeover television and radio show, shamba chef, designed to promote modern, cleaner, safer cooking. Shamba shape up shamba shape up is kenyas first realitystyle farming tv program guiding smallscale farmers on topics such as improved pest management, irrigation, cattle rearing, poultry keeping, financial education, and crop management techniques, in an engaging and educational way. For angela and joseph, water supply is the main obstacle. The shape up team visits a different farm each week in a. Shamba shape up is a everyday, makeover style tv series aimed at east africas rapidly growing rural and periurban tv viewers and planned to deliver operative.
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