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Name of article: Short in the arm for small farmers
Name of Publication: Windhoek Observer
Date: Saturday, October 31-Friday, November 6, 2009
Country: Namibia
Theme: Agriculture
Skills:
Genre: News and images
GEM Classification: Missed opportunities/Gender blind
Analysis
The article is about the donation of 17,000 Namibian Dollars to the Guwiseb Farmers Cooperative to set up a veterinary outlet in Hoachanas.
The story is completely gender blind and missed the opportunity to bring in the gender aspect of how farming affects women in the region and what this donation would do for them. In Namibia, like other SADC countries, farming provides employment to a large number of people and most of these small scale farmers are women.
The article is basically a public relations exercise as it only talks about the donation and ignores the challenges of the farming sector. It does not explore how small scale farmers stand to benefit and it provides no platform for this sector as well.
The picture shows the donor and beneficiaries sporting a large bank cheque. Senior Manager of AGRA’s Corporate Affairs (female) and the Namibian Farmer’s Union (male) as well as a member of the Guwiseb Farmer’s Cooperative (female) carry the cheque. These three people could have been interviewed.
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