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Marketing change over the airwaves
Farming is a tough business, relying on good weather, hard work and fair prices at the market. Yet farmers are frequently faced with a shortage…
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How radio programmes can support agriculture and market development
Ghanaian farmers learn about a new, standardized bag for selling their produce. Without using bags of a standard size, many farmers are cheated by middlemen…
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Audio postcard: Ghanaian farmers capitalized on ICT to connect with markets
A radio producer from Obuoba FM interviews the chairperson of a farmer organization in Ghana’s Ashanti Region. Hello my name is Nathaniel Ofori, the information and…
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Audio postcard: Radio program helped farmers access vines to grow nutritious orange-fleshed sweet potato
Victoria Dansoa Abankwa, an agricultural extension officer and host of the orange-fleshed sweet potato program at Central Radio in Cape Coast, Ghana. In 2013, Farm…
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Kielburgers: radio a self-help tool for farmers
Free the Children founders Craig and Marc Kielburger know that development work involves more than building schools or wells. “In many cases, […] communities are…
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Spring Network News is here!
Our most recent Network News is hot off the presses. In this issue we meet Dr. Adaptation and learn how his radio show helped Ghanaian…
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Audio Postcard: Women and land grabs in Ghana
Lydia Ajono, director of Radio Gurune and FRI broadcast partner, conducts a field interview with Amina Bukari, a rice and vegetable farmer from Gowrie village,…
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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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Gender Mainstreaming Workshop – Kumasi, Ghana – May 18-19, 2011 by Amanda Joyce, Farm Radio International Intern
I interviewed a female participant, Regina Suwie from Radio Progress in Ghana, who brought her baby to a workshop that I was involved in while working…
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“Radio can bring people together”
Farm Radio International broadcast partner, Lydia Ajono, has been involved with the Ghana Community Radio Network (GCRN) since it began in 1999. She has worked…
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