Building progress

Positive, exciting, hopeful change

Building progress

Positive, exciting, hopeful change

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Radio programs encourage Malian girls to stay in school

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.

Improving Ghanaian women farmers’ access to agricultural advisory services

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.

Investing in partnerships to prevent violence against women and girls

This 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, we share approaches to ending gender-based violence that we’ve learned from our projects and partners.
Charity Intelligence: Top 10 International Impact Charity

Farm Radio once again named Top 10 International Impact Charity

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. 

Seeds and storage: How radio reduced post-harvest loss of potatoes in Nigeria

Bitrus Gomas used to regularly lose nearly half his potatoes. But the Nigerian potato farmer implemented small changes that are making a big difference in reducing post-harvest l

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

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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Who we are

We are a Canadian charity uniquely focused on using radio to strengthen African farming communities.

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Small-scale farmers produce most of the food in Africa, but too often can’t make ends meet. Thankfully, there's a simple and accessible tool that can help them help themselves: RADIO.

The world's most popular mass medium is especially important in rural Africa, where people rely on it for information.

Available to practically everyone and broadcast in local languages, radio has the power to transform lives and whole communities for the better. And, combined with digital technologies, it is more powerful than ever before.

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What we do

Radio Resources

We offer resources and training to improve rural radio programs.

Radio Innovations

We come up with new ways to make radio better than ever before. 

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Projects

We run targeted projects that use radio to get results at scale.

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