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For farmers facing climate change, radio means resilience
Photo: Jesse Winter One of the ultimate injustices of climate change is that those who have contributed to it the least are those most vulnerable to…
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Farm Radio research project releases its final report
Radio is widely acknowledged as the best way to deliver farming information to small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. But, until recently, little was known about…
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Farm Radio goes west: Our first-ever supporter event in Vancouver!
“Wait a minute!” interjected donor Paul McRae as I thanked the twenty Farm Radio supporters who attended our reception in Vancouver last week. I didn’t…
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Radio key to success for this first-time guinea fowl farmer
When Sewura Ebenezer Ayibabu, 35, was given 15 guinea fowl eggs by a friend one day, he wasn’t quite sure what to do with them. He…
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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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Audio postcard: How changing rainfall is affecting farmers in Ghana
The rains in the Upper East Region of Ghana normally start in May. This year they didn’t come until July. Farmers near the community of…
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Watering the soil with the sweat of his brow: FRI supporter David Frere visits Tanzania to see farmers, and Farm Radio, in action
I have been a happy supporter of Farm Radio International for a number of years now and have recently returned from a trip to Tanzania…
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Audio postcard: Radio helps bean farmers get more from their crops
Extension officer Comfort Mlegwa (left) and farmer Augustino Hoza (centre) demonstrate a bean harvesting method in which beans are beaten out of their shells with…
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Learning from each other and the radio as a community listening group
After growing enset for the past eight years, Tagesech Belete, 23, has gained much of her farming knowledge from experience. But when Kembata Community Radio…
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Voices from the field: Abdillahi Mabomba, Tanzania
Abdillahi Mabomba is a Tanzanian rice farmer who lives in the town of Ndanda, in the Mtwara Region of southern Tanzania, just north of Mozambique.…
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