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On Air Dialogues: What rural people in sub-Saharan Africa have to say about climate change

Dec 13, 2022

In October 2022, Farm Radio International organized a series of three On Air Dialogues in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso to gather the views, perspectives and experiences of rural people as they contend with climate change. Learn what African farmers had to say about the impacts of climate change and how they are adapting their farming practices.

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Felicia Abaane uses her phone in her field near Yorogo, Ghana

On Air Dialogues: Amplifying rural voices during the 2021 Food Systems Summit

Jul 26, 2021

Using radio polling, we asked farmers for their opinions about food systems ahead of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.

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Development at a Distance webinar

Rewatch webinar: Development at a distance — changing paradigms during and beyond the pandemic

Oct 15, 2020

Join us on Oct. 29 to learn how can interactive communication approaches can respond to the needs of underserved communities during COVID-19.

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Partners review a bean field

We’ve ‘bean’ on a mission — to improve legumes!

Oct 5, 2018

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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Fall Armyworm

Fast Facts on Fall armyworm

Sep 20, 2017

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

Jan 31, 2017

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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Farmer program producer Alfred Kangambega with the gift of resource packs and sansas

Farm Radio research project releases its final report

Nov 11, 2016

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

Jul 15, 2016

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

Jan 8, 2015

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?

Dec 12, 2014

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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