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We’ve ‘bean’ on a mission — to improve legumes!
It’s no secret that when people work together, the results are better than those working alone. In 2015, Farm Radio International, alongside several other organizations,…
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Fast Facts on Fall armyworm
A hungry, hungry caterpillar It’s not a worm. It’s a caterpillar that grows into a moth. This means it can travel far once it reaches…
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Recent report explores the potential of interactive radio to serve rural citizens
What are the possibilities of using new digital technologies alongside radio to help ensure that agricultural development projects are farmer-centred, and meet the needs of…
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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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This research farmer is sweet on a new kind of potato
Video by Jesse Winter Cyril Ananie is a research farmer in Lume Avete, a community in the Volta Region of eastern Ghana. He is helping…
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Learning about the state of radio in francophone West Africa
This summer, researcher Meli Rostand visited radio stations in Mali and Burkina Faso to understand the work broadcasters are doing and how they are meeting…
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What is the state of farmer radio programming in Africa?
Ideally, international development efforts are driven by the needs and circumstances of the people they intend to serve. But when international development organizations develop expertise…
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Audio postcard: Research on sweet potato selection shows that nutrition is often an afterthought
Hi I’m Janelle from Farm Radio Ghana. Here’s my interview with Frank Quiquché Aka, Senior Researcher at the crop science department of the University of…
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ARRPA Dissemination Workshop by Amanda Joyce, Farm Radio International Intern
I met Kojo Oppong, a producer and presenter of the agriculture program at Radio Peace in the Central Region (Ghana), at the national dissemination workshop…
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Monitoring with Mobiles: Using Mobile Phones as a Convenient and Cost-Effective Survey Tool
How do you collect almost 4155 household surveys across five countries in under a month and be certain that all the data ends up in…
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