Use of a portable video system in the small-scale livestock project, Honduras : a women in development report

The SSLP is introducing and implementing a new, holistic approach to subsistence-level pig farming, and is specifically designed to help rural women organize themselves into cohesive cooperative groups and to provide them with sufficient technical and administrative support to successfully manage the production and marketing of domestic pigs. As a test of whether or not a video system could be used under field conditions, a series of nine programs on pig care and pig farm management was produced in collaboration with two local veterinarians. Interviews conducted before and after the viewing of the tapes revealed that the women were not only capable of learning technical information when it was presented in a simple and relevant manner, but that they were desirous of learning even if such information was not immediately applicable. Further research is recommended regarding this and other uses of video systems as training tools. Extensive information on the testing and analysis of video learning, and a 3-page bibliography (1970-86) on video learning are included. (Author abstract, modified)