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Voices from the field: Demitu Desasa, Ethiopia
Demitu Desasa has a wide smile as she shares her story outside her circular home in Leman Ayetu kebele, in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.…
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African Harvest 2017: A celebration of food, farmers, radio, and resilience
In 2014, we had the pleasure of hosting our first-ever African Harvest dinner to celebrate 35 years of Farm Radio International and raise funds to…
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Sharing one farmer’s success story with millions more
Small-scale farmers are naturally risk averse, as a successful harvest is essential for their food security and income. What can encourage farmers to take the…
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New partnership embraces radio to promote conservation agriculture in Tanzania and Ethiopia
We’re pleased to announce a new partnership with Canadian Foodgrains Bank that will provide conservation agriculture radio programming to 500,000 farming households in Tanzania and Ethiopia.…
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Radio can rain information when drought strikes
Imagine you’re a farmer and the rainy season that you depend on doesn’t come. This happens again — and again. After three failed rainy seasons you…
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Voices from the field: Farming in times of drought
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…
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Her Voice on Air: Speaking up and fighting drought in Ethiopia
FRI’s Karen Hampson (right) interviews Hiwot Tirfneh (centre) and other members of the Mearenet women’s radio listening group in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Nine women surround Hiwot,…
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Audio postcard: How radio is supporting farmers in response to the drought in Ethiopia
Tune in to learn more about how we are helping radio broadcasters support farmers in Ethiopia, as they cope with severe drought conditions. Fifteen men…
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Birhanu Kindu: Always improving his skills to better support farmers
Birhanu Kindu, like many broadcasters, is highly educated, with a diploma in language and a degree in sociology and social anthropology. But he also credits…
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Why do farmers love radio? It speaks to them about the important issues
Zena Gedebo is an enset farmer in Kembata, in the SNNPR region of Ethiopia. She is also an avid listener of Kembata FM, so when…
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