Theme pack
Dear broadcasting partners,
Across Africa and around the world, women are the backbone of agriculture. They grow food, raise livestock, manage farms, sell produce in local markets, and support their families and communities—often while facing systemic challenges like limited access to land, financing, and training.
This June 30, Farm Radio is proud to share a new theme pack on Women in Agriculture to support you in telling these important stories on air.
These ready-to-use resources will help you highlight women’s leadership and struggles in farming, invite women listeners to share their experiences, and raise awareness about how gender equity strengthens agriculture for everyone.
Spotlight Stories
These stories feature women broadcasters who are bringing vital agricultural issues to life on air. Through their voices, they highlight the challenges, innovations, and successes of women farmers in their communities. By sharing firsthand experiences and powerful testimonies, these broadcasters help listeners connect with the realities and resilience of rural women transforming agriculture.
- Giving farmers a voice: Kpira Boyohewa’s mission to inform and empower rural Togo
- Precious Kadwala: Promoting agriculture and community voices through radio
- Rhoda Adeniyi: Bridging farming and community through radio
- Aya Konan: Empowering farmers and communities through radio broadcasting
- Damtote Lamboni, supporting listeners to learn about organic production and composting
Script and backgrounders
These practical resources provide useful context on issues affecting women in agriculture—from barriers to land ownership, to the gender pay gap, to the unique impact of climate change on female farmers. Use them to guide your programs or inform your interviews.
- Women benefit from growing high-value crops
- Gender-responsive Nature-based Solutions
- Gender inequalities in land rights in Africa
- Barriers to women’s participation in farming in Mali
- Women’s roles in marketing farm produce
- Land Ownership Rights: Access Denied – Why Women Need Equal Access to Land
- Women Produce Most of Our Food
- Women’s right to land is necessary for community development
Barza Wire Stories
These stories touch on important topics related to women in agriculture, highlighting their challenges, successes, and innovations. They provide valuable insights and examples that can enrich your broadcasts and engage your listeners.
- Mali: Women restore their garden’s fertility with liquid fertilizer made from natural products
- Senegal: Women of the Saloum Delta at the heart of mangrove protection
- Togo: Turning arid soil into fertile ground
- Nigeria: Ogoni women lead reforestation efforts in the Niger Delta (Mongabay)
- Ghana: Women taking the lead in Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration
- Kenya: Indigenous women organize to protect their forests (IPS News)
- Malawi: Women farmers tackle climate change and gender inequalities through greenhouse program (UN Women)
- DRC: Women farmers in Kasaï-Central learn new techniques in fields
- Côte d’Ivoire: Women cocoa producers lead the battle for access to land
Thank you for your continued commitment to rural communities—and for using radio to build a more inclusive and equitable future for farmers everywhere.
Happy broadcasting!