SolarAid’s micro solar project in rural Tanzania: Tremendous solar energy...
This week’s story from Somaliland talks about the rising cost of charcoal. One promising long-term energy solution for Africans, including small-scale farmers, is solar energy. In April 2009, FRI...
View ArticleCongratulations to Victoria Dansoa Abankwa, 2014 George Atkins Communication...
Victoria Dansoa Abankwa is one of the three joint winners of Farm Radio International’s George Atkins Communications Award for 2014. Mrs. Dansoa Abankwa is a dynamic woman who is both passionate and...
View ArticleVideo and audio available for download: Ebola: A Poem for the Living
This video animation, created for use in West Africa, is designed to help dispel myths about how Ebola is spread, and to prevent infection and further spread of the disease. The story is told from the...
View ArticleCalls for applications: National Press Foundation fellowship
The National Press Foundation is offering 20 fellowships for journalists to attend and report on a conference focusing on tobacco’s global impact on health. Tobacco use in all its forms increases the...
View ArticleFRW news in brief
1-Mozambique: Fighting cervical cancer Mozambique is reeling under the twin burden of HIV and cervical cancer. Eleven women die of cervical cancer every day, or 4,000 a year. Yet this cancer is...
View ArticleSomaliland: Soaring charcoal prices hit families hard (IRIN)
Families in Somaliland have been hard hit by the steep rise in the price of charcoal, the main cooking fuel in the region. Asha Ahmed is a mother of five. She says, “We used to buy two full sacks of...
View ArticleMalawi: Farmer earns enough from okra to send her children to school (by...
Life became difficult for Annie Basikolo in 2004 when her marriage ended in divorce. It was a challenge to provide enough food for her children and pay their school fees. She had little money and less...
View ArticleRwanda: Women survivors drum up ice cream business (by Fulgence Niyonagize,...
Chantal Kabatesi survived the Rwandan genocide. But for many years after 1994, she lived isolated in her community in Huye, in the Butare province of southern Rwanda. Now she has re-connected by...
View ArticleBreaking down walls: changing the future
Hello! Welcome to Farm Radio Weekly issue #312! In this edition, we present stories from Rwanda, Malawi and Somaliland. Reconciliation after a bitter or divisive conflict can be difficult and painful....
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