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Announcing the winners of the 2024 Farm Radio awards

February 12, 2024

Find out the 2024 winners of the George Atkins Communication Award and Liz Hughes Award for Her Farm Radio.

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‘Farm Radio rocks!’

September 4, 2013

*David Gutnick is an award-winning radio documentary producer who has been a volunteer and mentor to Farm Radio International broadcast partners for FRI’s training programs. CBC radio broadcaster David Gutnick has served as a mentor and trainer for various FRI training programs. His radio documentary, “Better journalists make for better farmers,” featuring his work with…

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Radio and Rice

Rice and Radio: How radio programs and face-to-face training is improving lives in Ethiopia

August 9, 2019

Adugna Tigab is a 33-year-old farmer in Bure Kebele of Lebokemkem woreda (or district) in Ethiopia. This year due to heavy rain in the area, Adugna’s neighborhood flooded. To get to her crop, we had to walk through the swampy farms covered with the rice crop.  When the Farm Radio International team arrived, Adugna was…

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

January 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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Volunteers: Open call for developers to join us in Tanzania

October 10, 2013

Are you a developer who likes to mash things up a bit? Attend a hack-a-thon now and again? Love the challenge of finding new ways to apply your skills and make the world a better place? If yes, Farm Radio International is looking for a few good programmers like you! Developers from all over the…

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Why Radio?

May 18, 2017

People are often surprised to learn that radio is a powerful tool in international development. In rural Africa, where we work, people depend on it as their primary source of information. That’s why we’ve used radio to help farmers help themselves for nearly 40 years. And now we combine it with newer technologies like mobile…

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Get Involved

May 18, 2017

Donate Your gift will help ensure that all African farmers have access to a quality radio program that helps them enjoy better harvests, improved health and a brighter future. Give monthly Give a one-time gift Other ways to give Other ways to give Tribute gifts A great way to honour a loved one Honour a…

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Massai farmer with radio

Farm Radio International partners with Elanco to support livestock farmers in Tanzania

June 24, 2019

For livestock farmers, the health of their animals means the health of their families. That’s why Farm Radio International is partnering with Elanco Animal Health Incorporated to launch a 12-week series of radio programming on animal health in Northern, Coast, and Western Tanzania. It’s an expansion of our current partnership with Elanco. Download the press…

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Monitoring with Mobiles: Using Mobile Phones as a Convenient and Cost-Effective Survey Tool

February 7, 2011

How do you collect almost 4155 household surveys across five countries in under a month and be certain that all the data ends up in one location?   For Farm Radio International, the solution was Mobile Researcher – an application that lives on a basic nokia mobile phone and can help conduct surveys face to face…

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Radio and food: a recipe for healthy communities

October 16, 2019

This World Food Day, it might seem a stretch to say radio has anything to do with food.  How can a device that picks up invisible signals in the air have anything to do with something that literally helps us survive? How can a voice on air have anything to do with achieving a #ZeroHunger…

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