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Community forest management: A path to sustainability
Dear broadcasting partner, Forests are vital for energy and food security, providing fuel for cooking, as well as fruits, seeds, and wild meat. Forests also benefit agriculture by hosting pollinators, like bees, improving soil fertility, and regulating the climate. But forests also contribute greatly to biodiversity and the overall health of the ecosystem. Forested watersheds…
Reforesting the banks of the Zio River is a positive response to environmental challenges
RISING SIGNATURE TUNE, THEN FADE OUT HOST : Hello dear listeners, welcome to our show. In recent years, the lower reaches of the Zio River between Tonoukouti and Fidokui, not far from the capital of Togo, Lomé, have been exposed to regular cycles of flooding due to climate change. With our guests today, we…
Ensuring good access to water, with less flooding
Dear broadcasting partner, In this month’s theme pack, we share several radio resources on how to protect your watershed, including protecting riverbanks and dams. Farmers and the local environment rely on water, although too much can be disastrous as well. Floods can wash away ecosystems and farmers’ crops. Trees can help protect riverbanks from flooding…
Soil fertility solutions that benefit nature too
Dear broadcasting partner, Welcome to this month’s theme pack, all about Nature-based Solutions to improve soil fertility. Farmers across sub-Saharan Africa are working to improve soil fertility in order to improve their harvest. But many of these practices can benefit the overall environment as well. This pack includes 3 backgrounders, 5 scripts, and 9 Barza…
Integrating trees on your farm: A Nature-based Solution
In this month’s theme pack, we share several radio resources on the value of integrating trees into your farmland. This is a Nature-based Solution with benefits to soil fertility, productivity, and local biodiversity. Trees also help to prevent runoff or erosion, and often their produce can be sold for extra income. This theme pack includes…
Radio spots for preparing for emergency preparedness
Spot #1: Protecting health in emergencies NARRATOR: Natural disasters are becoming more common, in part because of climate change. The health of the people in your community is at great risk following a disaster. When water is unclean, diarrhea, cholera, typhoid and other diseases can spread quickly. Stay safe in an emergency by…
Radio spots for preparing for emergency response
Spot #1: Evacuation, emergency supplies, and curfews NARRATOR: During the current (type of emergency, for example, flood, heat wave, drought, civil unrest), everyone in the following areas (list areas) is asked to (evacuate OR be prepared to evacuate) to the emergency shelters or emergency areas nearest to them (list the names and locations…
Soil restoration practices and community identification: The antidote to countering soil degradation
RISING SIGNATURE TUNE, THEN FADE OUT HOST : We’re in Complan, one of the 22 villages in the urban commune of Dano, located in the southwest of Burkina Faso, 270 km (two-hundred seventy) from Ouagadougou, the capital. Complan means “white water” in the local Dagara language. The first inhabitants of the village noticed that…
No more famine: How one man led efforts to restore eight square kilometres of Nyakambu swamp in Sheema District, Western Uganda
HOST: Greetings, listeners, and welcome to the program. My name is ____. Today we will be talking about Nature-based Solutions, or NbS. These are innovative yet essential tools to fight climate change. They merge indigenous viewpoints and ecosystem-based solutions to tackle climate adaptation efforts. If appropriately implemented, NbS can expedite progress towards a low-carbon, equitable,…
Guardians of the green: Tackling invasive alien plants to address water scarcity in South Africa
SIGNATURE TUNE HOST: Good day listener, welcome again to our program on farming. In today’s segment, we focus on the significance of clearing invasive plants to restore water in its sources and grasslands. In today’s program, we will speak to some of the farmers and stakeholders in the Drakensberg who have taken…