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World Radio Day

Celebrating radio across Africa : World Radio Day 2020

March 12, 2020

Farm Radio International’s staff spent World Radio Day doing their best work to make radio a powerful tool for development and change.

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Share the love on World Radio Day!

February 11, 2014

Love is in the air! Not only is Friday Valentine’s Day, but Thursday February 13th is World Radio Day. Radio is recognized around the world for its role in creating positive change. This special day gives radio practitioners and enthusiasts an opportunity to celebrate this important communication tool. Do you love radio? Tell us why!…

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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. 

January 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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Rwanda: Climate change concerns farmers on World Food Day (by Jean Paul Ntezimana for Farm Radio Weekly in Rwanda)

October 13, 2010

It is a Thursday morning with bright sunshine and a fresh breeze. Potatoes are heaped on freshly dug land. The farmer inspects them one by one and puts them in a bag. Theoneste Havugimana is harvesting his last potatoes for this year. I do not remember well the date of World Food Day. However, what I…

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Farm Radio Weekly celebrates 200th edition

May 28, 2012

Farm Radio Weekly (FRW) is our news and information service for rural radio broadcasters in sub-Saharan Africa. It started in 2007 with the vision of Doug Ward, the President and Chair of the Board of Directors for Farm Radio International, to provide resources to our African broadcasting partners on a more regular basis. After all,…

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Join our Thunderclap to share the love on World Radio Day!

January 30, 2017

To learn what we’re doing for World Radio Day this year, visit here. Valentine’s Day is for lovers. The day before is for lovers of radio. Taking place each year on February 13, World Radio Day is a global celebration of the power of radio. All around the world, radio entertains and informs us. It connects…

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Farm Radio helps Trans World Radio to serve farmers across Kenya (by Heather Miller, Farm Radio Weekly editor)

May 26, 2009

On a recent holiday to Kenya, I had the enjoyable opportunity to visit one of our Partners (Trans World Radio Kenya) and hear first-hand how important Farm Radio International is. David Angango wears a broad smile when he talks about Farm Radio International. His sentences are often punctuated with laughter. Within a few minutes of…

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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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The fall edition of Network News is here!

September 26, 2013

The fall edition of Network News is here! In this issue, you can meet the FarmQuest candidates competing to be named “Mali’s best new farmer” and learn why award-winning documentary producer David Gutnick thinks that Farm Radio rocks! Check it out! Help us rename Network News! In 2008, Developing Countries Farm Radio Network became Farm…

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World Radio Day: Looking back and looking forward

February 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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