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Farmer strategies for adapting to climate change in Ghana

December 15, 2019

HOST 1: Welcome to your favourite farmer’s program. My name is Grace Acheampong. My co-host is Abdul Mohammed. Today’s topic is: How can small-scale farmers across Ghana adapt to a changing climate? We will be discussing a scientific study that was conducted in Ghana by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the German…

Senegalese farmers struggle to find solutions to soil salinity

July 9, 2019

SPEAKERS FARMER 1: Ousseynou Sokoma, farmer, co-owner of the farm, Les jumeaux (The twins) FARMER 2: Assane Sokoma, co-owner of the farm, Les Jumeaux FARMER 3: Moustapha Cissé, Chairman of the National Union of Agricultural Cooperatives SPECIALIST: Yacine Badiane, Director of the National Crop Production Research Laboratory, Senegalese Agricultural Research Institute HOST: Soils in many…

Desertification & drought

June 17, 2019

Here is our theme pack of FRI resources for June. This month, to mark the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on June 17, we focus on resources related to desertification, drought, and growing food crops in dry lands. The theme pack includes 10 items from our Resource Packs: seven interview scripts, two dramas,…

Climate change

April 23, 2019

In October 2016, we published our first theme pack. The topic was adapting to climate change. This month, we’re revisiting that topic and including some new resources. These 14 Resource Pack items and 8 Barza Wire resources represent some of the best resources on climate change that we’ve published over the last eleven years. Backgrounders…

Farmers cope with drought and climate change in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley

February 9, 2017

FADE UP SIGTUNE SFX: SOUND OF VEHICLE STARTING (FADE UNDER AFTER 10 SECONDS) FILIUS:                                 Hello. My name is Filius Jere, your farmer radio producer. I know that many of you are at your wits’ end because of the unfriendly climate you are facing nowadays. But I am sure that our program today will help you…

Adapting to climate change

November 5, 2016

As you know, Farm Radio International has been distributing Farm Radio Resource Packs for many years, since 1979 in fact! But today, we are experimenting with something slightly different! We are attaching a package of existing (not new) resources on one particular theme: adapting to climate change. This background information, these scripts and these stories…

Water-efficient gardens: Water is life.

September 23, 2016

Fade up signature tune and hold for 15 seconds to start the show. Signature tune fades out under host’s voice. HOST:                                   Hello, listeners! Welcome to (name of farmer program) on (name of radio station). This program is dedicated to one of the most important issues facing farmers today—how to use water more efficiently in their…

Raising goats to beat the drought in eastern Kenya

November 25, 2015

Sig tune up then under Host: Good morning and welcome to another edition of the Farmer to farmer program. Today we are going to look at the effects of drought and what farmers are doing to cope with it. I visited some farmers in Mwingi, eastern Kenya who have made a successful switch from cattle…

Balancing worry and hope: Ethiopian farmers talk about the impact of climate change

November 14, 2013

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…

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’)

November 14, 2013

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…