421 Janet Maro — Farmers are the architects, not the audience

About this episode

Janet Maro discusses her approach to building training programs with farmers in Tanzania by treating them as architects of their own learning.

When Janet Maro started building training programs with farmers in Tanzania, she didn't arrive with a curriculum. She asked farmers what they knew, what they needed, and what they could bring to the table — and built from there. That instinct, to treat farmers as the architects rather than the audience, turns out to explain most of what makes Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania unusual: why groups keep meeting and planning years after projects end, why an organic shop opened in Morogoro in 2012 ...

People in this episode

Host: Koen van Seijen

Guest: Janet Maro

Topics covered

• sustainable agriculture
• farmer training
• community engagement
• organic farming
• Tanzania

Keywords

• sustainable agriculture
• Tanzania
• farmers
• training programs
• community planning
• organic shop

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Tanzania, Morogoro

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