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A story of success promoting orange-fleshed sweet potatoes
Maria Mchele (right) tells her story of growing orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to Radio Maria broadcaster Agnes Shayo, who featured Maria’s story as part of a…
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Her Voice on Air: Amplifying the voices of women farmers
Peer-to-peer exchange is one of the most powerful adoption pathways. Farm Radio International uses radio to extend peer-to-peer far beyond village or kinship boundaries. Our…
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Audio postcard: The creativity and challenges facing women in technology
FRI has two creative and passionate women working as information communication technology (ICT) officers in the field, helping to train broadcasters on new ways to…
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Why more female voices are needed on the air
Farm Radio International works with broadcasters across Africa, and has seen the challenges female broadcasters face in the workplace and in the field. Three strong…
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Barza Wire’s top stories feature women doing great work
Since 2007, Farm Radio Weekly — now known as Barza Wire — has been producing great farmer stories. Every week, more than 2,000 broadcasters receive…
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Our commitment to gender equality
Farm Radio International has long been committed to including women in every aspect of our work: as broadcasters, farmers and agricultural extension workers. In July…
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With radio, women can increase their harvest and their incomes
Mariam Amiri’s field is her family’s source of food and income. She grows beans as a staple crop on her plot of land in the…
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Audio postcard: Women helping women through communal banking in southern Tanzania
Yosefa Antony (left) shakes the hand of Faousta Amos, the secretary of her communal bank. Out in the small village of Namatula, Tanzania, where you’re more…
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Voices from the field: Aurea, Tanzania
Aurea Lyamuya is a 52-year-old mother of eight. She lives in Ngage village in the Simanjiro District of the Manyara Region of Tanzania. She relocated there…
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Voices from the field: Hadija, Tanzania
Hadija is a farmer and mother of five children who lives in Rundugai village in Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region after being forced to relocate her there in…
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