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Radio spots on circular and regenerative agriculture
Spot #1: Basic circular and regenerative agriculture practices farmers can apply NARRATOR: Farmers! If your crops are struggling because the soil has lost its fertility, don’t worry. You can restore your soil and boost your harvests with simple regenerative farming practices. Before the planting season starts, manually clear the weeds with a machete to eliminate…
Circular and Regenerative Agriculture
Introduction Circular and regenerative agriculture is a farming system that applies nature-friendly practices to create a climate change resilient, self-sustaining ecosystem for food production. It utilizes farming practices that reduce soil disturbance, like minimal or no tillage and cover cropping. It also minimizes the use of chemical inputs, and integrates crop rotation, intercropping, agroforestry, livestock…
Farmers opt for nature-based solutions to preserve soil and crops
FADE UP SIGNATURE TUNE, THEN OUT HOST : Hello everyone, and welcome to our program. For several years now, farmers have noticed the progressive degradation and impoverishment of their soil and a decline in the quality of their crops. These problems are partly due to erosion and the excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides…
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…
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…
Plant Gliricidia sepium for soil fertility and fuelwood
HOST: In today’s program, we discuss the benefits of a tree known as Gliricidia sepium for sustainable agriculture and provision of wood fuel. We will ask questions such as: What is Gliricidia sepium? What is its impact? And we will try to give listeners a basic understanding of how the tree is used…
Soil fertility
Dear broadcasting partner, Here is our latest monthly theme pack of FRI resources, this month all about integrated soil fertility management. This is a set of practices related to planting, fertilizers, composting and more to increase the nutrients in the soil and ultimately production of crops. This approach was developed in Africa to encourage intensification…
Restoring degraded land in northern Uganda by planting indigenous trees
HOST: Hello, dear listener, welcome to our radio program. Today, we are going to talk about the promotion of tree planting by Kijani Forestry, based in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. We will look at the challenges they face and discuss the species they plant. We will also talk about the impact of climate…
Agroecological agriculture: What’s it all about?
Here is our theme pack for January, this time about agroecological agriculture. Agroecological agriculture is the application of ecological principles to the management of agricultural and food systems, and integrates social, biological, and agricultural science with traditional knowledge. Agroecological approaches to farming often use practices such as crop rotation and intercropping, and use biological solutions…
Benefits of crop companion planting and mutualism
Introduction Why is this subject important to listeners? Because small-scale farmers should know: How growing certain crops together (mixed cropping) can increase their yields. Which crops that can be grown together without interfering with each other’s growth and maturity, for example maize and legume crops. There is also a mutualism between maize and legumes…