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Broadcaster committed to agricultural market programming honoured with George Atkins Communications Award
Wednesday is market day in the town of Fana, Mali. There’s a busy energy in the air as farmers, traders, and other villagers gather to…
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World AIDS Day: Farm Radio Weekly features original stories about small-scale farmers in Africa
Farm Radio Weekly (FRW) is Farm Radio International’s weekly electronic news bulletin. It prides itself on making the farmer’s voice and perspective heard. To mark…
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The Drama of the Radio Drama …
Small-scale farmers in Nigeria, particularly female farmers, are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In 2007, a project was initiated by the African…
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Kenya: Women use a rotating savings scheme to help each other survive a drought (by Pius Sawa for Farm Radio International)
To mark the International Day of Rural Women on October 15th, Farm Radio Weekly (FRW) featured an article from one of our two FRW Service…
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Meanwhile in Rwanda: Our farmer gives birth to a baby boy
One of the keys to achieving food security in Africa is ensuring its millions of smallholder farmers are able to produce enough food for their…
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Farm Radio International vital tool in spreading facts, by Laura Rance
The following article appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, October 5, 2011. We’ve all grown accustomed to the hype around Hockey Night in Canada, a…
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Philip Akafo’s Story
Ben Fiafor is Farm Radio International’s National Research Coordinator in Ghana. He writes about how one farmer, Philip Akafo, changed his life for the better…
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Radio helps African farm families survive
In the midst of drought and famine in eastern Africa some hopeful news. A three-year study by Farm Radio International demonstrates conclusively that when properly…
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Nourishing the Planet discusses the work of Farm Radio International
Recently, Molly Theobald, research fellow with the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet wrote about the work of Farm Radio international. In her blog she writes…
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Travelling Through Tanzania
I had the wonderful opportunity with the support of our partner, World University Service of Canada (WUSC), to travel to Tanzania last September 2010. Today,…
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