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Nutritious crops

May 22, 2023

Here is our theme pack for May, this time all about nutritious crops. This pack has 12 elements, including one backgrounder, four interview scripts, one drama, one set of spots, and five Barza Wire stories. Two resources are available in Swahili.   Backgrounders Backgrounder on nutrition Interviews Health benefits of sorghum, the forgotten cereal African…

Accurate information leads to a healthy life!

March 2, 2023

Here is our theme pack for February, this time about a variety of health issues, including safe breastfeeding and weaning practices, good nutrition, and good hygiene for good health. This pack consists of 11 elements, including three backgrounders, three interview scripts, one set of radio spots, and four Barza Wire stories. Backgrounders Backgrounder: Recommended breastfeeding…

Resources to celebrate World Food Day 2022: Safe food today for a healthy tomorrow

October 11, 2022

Our theme pack of FRI resources for October addresses food safety, including food and meal-time hygiene practices as well as food processing and storage techniques to keep food fresh longer. This theme pack includes seven items from our Resource Packs: two series of radio spots, two backgrounders, two scripts, and one narrative. It also includes…

Food security and nutrition

March 22, 2021

Here is our theme pack of FRI resources for March, which includes resources on food security and nutrition. This month’s theme pack includes 10 items from our Resource Packs, including five backgrounders, four interview scripts, and one drama. It also includes five Farmer stories. Backgrounders Reducing post-harvest losses in tomatoes Reducing post-harvest losses in maize…

The importance of a healthy diet for pregnant women

September 23, 2020

MUSIC: ON NUTRITION OUMAR CISSE: Good evening, everyone. Right now we have our doctor with us in the studio and we welcome him. Please introduce yourself to the audience. NUTRITIONIST: I am Mrs. Coulibaly Fatoumata Koné, known by everyone as Mama. I work at TRIPANOSO (Editor’s note: a community health centre). OUMAR CISSE: Mama, we…

Nutrition

May 7, 2020

Good nutrition depends mainly on consuming food with high levels of both macronutrients and micronutrients. A balanced diet means that you have a balance between the different kinds of macronutrients as well as a sufficient intake of vitamins and trace elements. Macronutrients include proteins, lipids (fats), and carbohydrates. These are the three so-called “energy elements”…

Delicious, nutritious, and lucrative : Fruits and vegetables

July 15, 2019

The theme pack includes 12 items from our Resource Packs: 10 interview scripts and two backgrounders. The theme pack also includes 15 Barza Wire Farmer stories and one other Barza Wire resource. These resources focus on various aspects of fruit and vegetable farming, including production practices, managing pests and diseases, good post-harvest and storage practices,…

Nutrition resources

December 6, 2017

Here is our latest monthly theme pack of FRI resources, this month about nutrition. The theme pack includes nine scripts and three Farmer stories from Barza Wire. Scripts Children need vitamin A Prevent blindness with vitamin A Health benefits of sorghum, the forgotten cereal Beyond maize, rice and other staples: Eating one food every day…

Children need vitamin A

October 16, 2017

Characters: Host Nurse at health clinic Martha: a young mother HOST:                                                 Good (morning/afternoon/evening) listeners. Today we’re going to talk about a serious problem that affects millions of children around the world. That might sound like bad news, but the good news is that it’s a problem that has a simple solution. I’m talking about…

Prevent blindness with vitamin A

October 16, 2017

Save and edit this resource as a Word document. HOST:                                                If your children are having trouble seeing, you probably want to put something special over their eyes—a pair of eyeglasses. But for a common kind of vision problem, the kind that starts when a child has trouble seeing in dim light, you should put…