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World Radio Day: Looking back and looking forward

Feb 5, 2024

This World Radio Day, we look back at our use of radio over the years and look ahead to the future of radio.

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The National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), and Farm Radio International (FRI) host a World Radio Day event in Ottawa to celebrate the importance of radio. 

Jan 30, 2024

NRCA and FRI will be hosting a World Radio Day event in Ottawa on Feb. 13 to celebrate the importance of radio.

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An innovative addition to maize farming: Cashew trees

Jan 26, 2024

If you walk through the farms surrounding Babato Kuma in central Ghana, you’ll find cashew trees sprouting up between the rows of maize. This creative climate solution is boosting both soil fertility and farmer incomes.

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My experience at the unpaid care project convening in Arusha, Tanzania

Jan 18, 2024

Read a first-hand account from the convening in Arusha, Tanzania for our project about unpaid care in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Ugandan broadcaster wins award for radio documentaries for Nature-based Solutions project

Jan 9, 2024

Ugandan broadcaster Martin Amaiyko Kigongo’s first radio documentaries (produced through our project about Nature-based Solutions to climate change) won a national media award. Learn about his broadcasting career and journey to winning the award.

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Top 10 highlights from 2023

Dec 19, 2023

Find out our top moments and stories from 2023.

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Radio programs encourage Malian girls to stay in school

Dec 12, 2023

In Mali, girls are at higher risk of dropping out of school. Radio programs are addressing the factors that influence girls to abandon their education and encouraging them to stay in school.

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Improving Ghanaian women farmers’ access to agricultural advisory services

Dec 7, 2023

In Ghana, women face barriers to accessing agricultural advisory services. Read the stories of three women who benefited from radio programs tackling those barriers head on.

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Charity Intelligence: Top 10 International Impact Charity

Farm Radio once again named Top 10 International Impact Charity

Nov 9, 2023

Farm Radio International is once again honoured to be named a Top 10 International Impact Charity by Charity Intelligence. The institution, Canada’s “charity watchdog,” has also listed Farm Radio among its overall top 2023 100 charities in the country. 

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Journalists attend radio documentary training in Uganda for Nature-based Solutions project

Oct 31, 2023

This June, Farm Radio International’s radio craft officers added one more tool to their toolbox so that they can train our partner broadcasters on how to produce radio documentaries that will inspire change in their communities.

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