FIT-22 is one of at least six ‘FIT projects’ (to promote technical innovation), funded by DFID-UK, in the Bolivian Ministry of Campesino Affairs and Agriculture.
Four courses, each 5 days long, were held at four sites in Bolivia during October-November 2005. Each site was at a different altitude, from 300 meters above sea level to nearly 4,000 meters, which helps to explain the wide range of tropical, temperate and high altitude crops that the project was involved with. The course, Helping PITAs to Offer Technologies, helped extension agents in PITAs (applied technology innovation projects) to organize and present new ideas to smallholders. During the course, each extension agent wrote a fact sheet, for farmers, on a specific technology.
This report describes how we taught técnicos to outline an extension message, in a simple, robust method we call the ‘snowman’ (Chapter 1). It discusses tips for good writing, photography and layout and how we taught these to the extensionists (Chapters 2, 3 and 4).