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Soil fertility radio spots
Spot #1: Soil health NARRATOR: Soil is essential for life on earth. It is the foundation for food production. Soil filters water, stores massive amounts of carbon, and is home to an abundance of biodiversity. So farmers, protect your soil’s health. Improve your soil’s health. A good sign of healthy soil is that organisms…
Celebrating the International Year of Women Farmers
Women play essential roles in their families and communities, nurturing, caring, and feeding children, husbands, parents, siblings, and neighbours. Women also play essential roles across agrifood systems, producing, processing and selling the food that sustains families, communities and economies. Yet their contributions often go unrecognized, and persistent inequalities limit their access to resources, opportunities, and…
Soil fertility
Key Information Soil health is a particularly pressing issue for Africa. Tropical soils have a tendency to rapidly degrade due to human activities. In many places, there is a limited amount of good farmland and there is a high rate of nutrient depletion in soils in many areas. A recent study has shown that soil…
Women in agrifood systems in Uganda
Introduction Agrifood systems are agricultural value chain activities of growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, distributing, trading, buying, preparing, eating food and disposing its waste. When discussing any aspect of the agrifood system, it is important to consider: gender division of labour; control over resources and assets, including income; decision-making power; time use and unpaid care…
How agroecology protects nature and supports crops
RISING SIGNATURE TUNE, THEN FADE OUT HOST: Hello dear listeners, I’m [name], and in this episode, we explore how agroecology can help farmers in Tanzania overcome the growing challenges of climate change. Here in Dodoma, farmers often face drought, unpredictable rainfall, and declining soil fertility. But what if there were a way of…
Circular and Regenerative Agriculture
Dear broadcasting partners, Circular and regenerative agriculture are gaining momentum as sustainable approaches to strengthening food systems and restoring the health of our soils, ecosystems, and communities. Yet, many farmers and listeners are still unfamiliar with these concepts or may believe they are too complex, costly, or only suited to large-scale operations. In reality, circular…
Agroforestry and Community Forest Management in Zambia
HOST: In today’s program, we discuss the benefits of agroforestry and community forest management. As observed by many, Zambia loses roughly 250,000–300,000 hectares of forest every year. We would like to understand what organizations working together with farmers are doing about it. We will ask questions such as: What is agroforestry and community forest…
Questions about circular and regenerative agriculture for experts
Suggested questions for foresters Please introduce yourself to us and tell us what your work as a forester is about? Kindly explain what is agroforestry, and what types of agroforestry systems are there? Please explain to us in which farming environments, each of the types of agroforestry systems you have discussed, are applied. Does the…
Questions for farmers practising regenerative agriculture
Suggested questions for farmers in regenerative agriculture With me today is Mr. [Name], a farmer from [Village] who practises agroforestry together with his wife and children. He owns about three acres of land where he grows crops and integrates trees into his farming system. How long have you been a farmer? How big is your…
Youth innovation in agricultural entrepreneurship: Packaging as a means of attracting customers
Fade up signature tune, then out. HOST : Hello listeners, welcome to our show. Today, we’ll be talking about young people interested in growing vegetables and spices in the Central Kasai province of the DRC. Dierci Kamba has been growing vegetables and spices for two years. Today, he will tell us about his…