Interviews
Interview scripts feature interviews with two farmers or rural people and one or two subject-matter experts, exploring a challenge and possible solutions. They also feature and intro and extro by the radio show host. They are written by African journalists, based on real interviews.
Interview scripts can be translated and adapted as necessary to suit the local context, then performed on air as dramatized interviews. Or reach them as inspiration and guidance for your own interviews.
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- Community development
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- Marketing and market information
- Nature-based Solutions
- Nutrition
- Post-harvest activities
- Social issues
- Soil health
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- Water management
Mother of twins: New maize variety enriches and nourishes Ugandan farmers
HOST: Greetings, listeners, and welcome to the program. My name is ____. Today we will be talking about maize. To be more specific, we are talking about a variety of maize that many Ugandans have nicknamed Nalongo. “Nalongo” literally means “the mother of twins.” The variety is also called Quality Protein Maize, or Longe 5.…
It’s better to sell together: The benefits of collective marketing
SIGNATURE TUNE FADES IN AND OUT HOST: Hello and welcome to this special program on cassava. (PAUSE) Have you noticed? Lately, cassava has become a much more common food on the street. Anyone can buy a piece of raw cassava or a fried cassava crisp for as little as one hundred Tanzanian shillings. You can…
Processing cassava brings wealth to farmers
Signature tune up then under HOST: Good (morning, afternoon, evening) and welcome to the program. Today we are talking about processing cassava. New harmonized guidelines for processing cassava flour were recently created for East and Central Africa. The guidelines cover the selection of quality raw materials, plus processing, packaging, and labelling safe, high quality cassava…
Ugandan farmers earn income and feed their families by raising and selling goats
GRACE AMITO: Good morning, listeners. This is your host, Grace Amito, with your popular program, “The Farming World.” In today’s program, we shall meet a farmer named Mrs. Opira who left a white collar teaching job to raise goats as a business. We shall also meet the mother of a sickly child who did…
Balancing worry and hope: Ethiopian farmers talk about the impact of climate change
MUSIC: SIG TUNE UP THEN UNDER HOST: A changing climate is shifting weather patterns all over the world. / The number of hot days is increasing and intense rainfall events are becoming more common than in past decades. In Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa, farmers are having a difficult time. Today, you will hear…
Mangoes for all seasons: Kenyan farmers profit by drying and selling mangoes all year round
SIGNATURE TUNE UP THEN UNDER HOST: Greetings, listeners, and welcome to the program. Did you know that you can grow mangoes and sell or eat them two years after harvest? And make good money doing it? Well, it’s true. Stay tuned and find out how. (Pause) In December to February of each year, mango farmers…
Being faithful to the local proverb ‘There is strength in unity’ spells success for Malawian groundnut farmers (Alimi a Mtedza ku Malawi Akupha Makwacha Kudzera M’mwambi oti ‘Mu Umodzi Muli Mphamvu’)
Characters: Host (studio presenter) Field reporter (George Kalungwe) Farmers: Ignansio Chisale (male) and Austokia Jumbe (female) Extension workers: George Kasokola, Deputy Agriculture Extension Development Coordinator, Chiosya Agricultural Extension Planning Area, Mchinji, Malawi HOST: Welcome to the program. Today we focus on how some groundnut farmers in Malawi have transformed their lives through approaching farming…
Farmer uses a water pump to triple his maize yields
Signature tune up and fade under presenter’s voice PRESENTER: Welcome, listeners. Today, we will hear an interview with a farmer who tripled his yields of maize! How, you ask? By buying and using a water pump to keep his compost moist and fertile. Stay tuned as our reporter Mariam Koné interviews farmer Siriman Camara.…
Cassava: A poor man’s crop no longer!
Signature tune up then under HOST: Greetings, listeners, and welcome to the program. My name is ____. Today we will be talking about a crop that can feed you and give you more income. For some farmers, it may even save their lives! (Pause) Farmers in eastern Kenya have come to recognize the value…