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Farmers living in the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia are no strangers to challenging weather. They have a long history of working their farms using sophisticated knowledge handed down over generations. They know how to adapt to cycles of nature. But the worst drought in 50 years coupled with one of the strongest El Niño events…
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Farming is a tough business, relying on good weather, hard work and fair prices at the market. Yet farmers are frequently faced with a shortage of rain, too much work and buyers who shortchange them. Without a standard bag for selling their produce, many farmers in Ghana are cheated by middlemen who pass a larger,…
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When it comes to growing a better future, inaction is no longer an option. The time has come to make change happen. And radio can help. That’s what our 2015-16 annual report, Radio 4 Change, is all about. We know that radio has long been the best way to reach rural communities across Africa. And, paired with technologies…
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With files courtesy of Mark Kudafa Elvis Asare takes a radio broadcaster through his farm. He gestures to his recently harvested rice field, golden with newly cut stalks of rice. It’s January, and it’s harvest time for rice in Hohoe in the Volta region in eastern Ghana. Farmers like Elvis are reaping the benefits…
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Thanks to a radio program on conservation agriculture, America Asrassie is making a profit, and sending her children to university.
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Farm Radio International’s annual fundraising dinner raised $26,000 for small-scale farmers, and featured special guests like African staff Rex Chapota, and Andrea Bambara, and CTV broadcasting legend, Lloyd Robertson.
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How can we include the world’s most vulnerable people in the decisions that affect them? It’s simple: We ask them. How? By combining the two most powerful communications tools in the developing world: radio and mobile phones. Conversations in development The history of international development is rife with examples of good intentions gone wrong.…
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We tagged alongside Abdul Mohammed Dahim, a broadcaster with Radio 123 in Tamale, Ghana, to interview farmers for an upcoming radio program.
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Program quality monitors make calls to farmers, speaking five of the languages of northern Ghana. The Farm Radio International office in Tamale, Northern Ghana, booms like a busy call center every weekday. Calls are made to listeners of Farm Radio programs to collect their profile information in order to share relevant farming tips with farmers…
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This World Food Day, we’re showcasing one of our projects that shows how basic agriculture information can not only help farmers raise nutritious animals for food, but how they can spark a business that will help them achieve long-term sustainable food security. In northern Ghana, nine out of 10 households raise guinea fowl. These birds…
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