"The study examines the coverage of solar energy in East African news media, specifically focusing on 63 stories from a leading daily newspaper and television station in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania from January to December 2023. Reporters and editors have reported limited coverage of solar energy du
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e to various factors, including: lack of knowledge; budget constraints; market unattractiveness of solar energy stories; lack of knowledge among farmers, solar technology suppliers, and stakeholders; and lack of reporters specialising in solar energy coverage. The study found that solar energy stories were rarely featured on the front page of three publications over the 12 months monitored. Most stories in the three studied publications appeared on pages beyond page 5. News stories dominated coverage of solar energy across the three countries, accounting for 8 out of every ten solar-related stories in newspapers and television. Conventional news reporting (he-said-she-said) made up most of the coverage. Solar energy use in agriculture (Productive Use of Solar Energy in agriculture) Findings reveal that out of the total coverage, 30 stories (representing 47.6%) focused on solar energy use in agriculture. The highest number out of these 30 stories addressed issues of financing off-grid solar solutions and community impact. Stories on solar entrepreneurship and innovation came second, followed by PUSE stakeholder coordination and ecosystem support." (Executive summary)
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"Les médias sont souvent le reflet des idéologies dominantes d’une époque donnée, surtout lorsqu’ils sont portés par des institutions publiques. L’étude présentée dans cet article traite de l’un des grands paradigmes contemporains de l’aide publique au développement, fondé sur le
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concept de résilience. Nous avons pris l’exemple du secteur de l’élevage pastoral au Sahel, qui concentre depuis les années 2000 l’attention des grands organismes d’aide au développement. Dans le champ de l’analyse de contenu médiatique en sciences de l’information et de la communication, il permet d’illustrer, comment les contenus de la presse publique et privée de pays de la bande sahélienne reflètent la teneur des discours des bailleurs de fonds qui renvoient très explicitement à ce paradigme." (Résumé)
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"In this article, media coverage of the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in Malawi as was reported in the Weekend Nation newspaper between 2005 and 2012 is examined from a critical political economy perspective. The FISP aimed at subsidising inputs for low income rural farmers. The Weekend Nation
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, a political weekly, was established by a key politician during the advent of democracy in 1995. Through institutional in-depth interviews and qualitative content analysis of editorials and opinion columns, the paper finds that overall, the political ownership of the newspaper had no bearing on editorial content on the issue of the FISP policy. This suggests that the coverage of a critical agricultural policy concerning, to a great extent, rural livelihoods of Malawi, was presented independently without political ownership influence." (Abstract)
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This report documents the scant attention that agriculture and women agriculturalists have received from news media.