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Climate change
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…
Restoring the past for a brighter future: Recovering and improving traditional seeds in Safo, Mali
HOST: Hello, listeners. This morning, we are in the rural district of Safo in southwestern Mali, where we will speak with farmers who are involved in a project on participatory varietal selection set up by the NGO, CAB Dèmèso. If you don’t know what participatory varietal selection is, it’s basically a way for farmers to…
Resources about the natural environment
Here is our latest monthly theme pack of FRI resources, this month about environmental issues. This theme pack covers all kinds of environmental issues—deforestation, desertification, water conservation, renewable energy, wildlife conservation—with the exception of climate change. The June theme pack includes 15 scripts from Resource Packs and 15 Farmer stories from Barza Wire. Scripts Rebuilding…
Preserving wild food plants ensures a better future for all
POUGKIENMA: (“first wife” in Moore) First wife of Zaksooba, 40 years old. POUGPAALA: (“new wife” in Moore) Second wife of Zaksooba, 30 years old. SIDNABA: (“truthful” in Moore) Farm worker in his twenties. ZAKSOOBA: (“head of family” in Moore) Polygamous farmer, 45 years old. NARRATOR: Pougkienma and Pougpaala, co-wives and farmers, lived in the village…
Ethiopian farmers restore indigenous seed varieties
HOST: Good morning (afternoon, evening). Today, we’re going to talk about how farmers in Ethiopia are restoring indigenous or local seeds that have been disappearing for years. SFX: SOUND OF CAR, THEN UNDER SPEAKERS HOST: It’s November, a spring season in Ethiopia. Our reporter, Netsanet Hailu, travelled to Oromia Region, Arsi zone, Hethosa district, Debeya…
Farmers cope with drought and climate change in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley
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
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.
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
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…
Farmers use agroforestry practices to heal farmland damaged by deforestation and soil erosion
FADE UP SIGTUNE NARRATOR: It’s time for Let’s conserve and restore our natural resources, a program about how natural resources serve small-scale farmers and what we must do to get maximum benefits from farming. Please ensure that you have your pen and paper ready to take important notes. FADE OUT SIGTUNE FILIUS: Welcome to the…