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Archive for January, 2011

Dear readers,
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: Issue #143, Past Issues

In this week’s Farm Radio Weekly:
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: Issue #143, Past Issues

Malawi: Intercropping helps farmer Phiri buy ox-cart (by Norman Fulatira, for Farm Radio Weekly in Malawi)
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #143, Past Issues

Rwanda: Health fund for cows (Syfia Grands Lacs)
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #143, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on intercropping as a supplement to fertilizer
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: Issue #143, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on One Cow per Household program
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: Issue #143, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

One World Media Special Award: Deadline 7 February 2011
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: Issue #143, Past Issues, Upcoming Events

Panos audio files available for download
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: Issue #143, Radio Resource Bank

Winners announced in scriptwriting competition on healthy communities
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: Farm Radio International Action, Issue #143, Past Issues

Zamana, or ‘The confession’
Date Posted: January 31st, 2011
Posted in: Farm Radio Script of the Week, Issue #143, Past Issues

Dear subscribers,
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #142, Past Issues

In this week’s Farm Radio Weekly:
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #142, Past Issues

Malawi: Vulnerable small-scale farmers prioritized in the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (by Mark Ndipita, for Farm Radio Weekly in Malawi)
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #142, Past Issues

2. Mali: Composting in groups (by Innoussa Maϊga, for Farm Radio Weekly in Mali)
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review

Notes to broadcasters on fertilizer subsidies in Malawi
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #142, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on making compost
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #142, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

Thomson Reuters Foundation Journalism Fellowships at the University of Oxford, 2011/12
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #142, Past Issues, Upcoming Events

Soaps and Society’ course application deadline extended
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #142, Past Issues, Upcoming Events

Covering a food crisis: online tutorials
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #142, Past Issues, Radio Resource Bank

What was your most interesting interview last year?
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Farm Radio International Action, Issue #142, Past Issues

No water no life: Corruption in a Zambian prison
Date Posted: January 24th, 2011
Posted in: Farm Radio Script of the Week, Issue #142, Past Issues

Greetings!
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #141, Past Issues

In this week’s Farm Radio Weekly:
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #141, Past Issues

UGANDA: Fertilizer from composted rubbish revives Mbale’s farmers (IRIN)
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #141, Past Issues

Zimbabwe: Collecting rainfall in the city (IPS)
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #141, Past Issues

Kenya: Drought disrupts mobile schools (AlertNet)
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #141, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on recycling vegetable wastes
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #141, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on rainwater harvesting
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #141, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on drought in Kenya
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #141, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards: deadline 27 January 2011
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #141, Past Issues, Upcoming Events

United Nations Radio audio content
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #141, Past Issues, Radio Resource Bank

‘Knowledge is like fire; you get it from your neighbour’: how farmers in Malawi connect via the radio
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Farm Radio International Action, Issue #141, Past Issues

Water, a basic human need, but a privilege to the voiceless
Date Posted: January 17th, 2011
Posted in: Farm Radio Script of the Week, Issue #141, Past Issues

Dear subscribers,
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #140, Past Issues

In this week’s Farm Radio Weekly:
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #140, Past Issues

1. Malawi: Villagers’ project builds irrigation and food security (by Gladson Makowa for Farm Radio Weekly in Malawi
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #140, Past Issues

Uganda: Elephants trample on returnees’ livelihoods in the north (IRIN)
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #140, Past Issues

DR Congo: Marketing by motorcycle (Syfia Grands Lacs)
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: African Farm News in Review, Issue #140, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on small-scale irrigation
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #140, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on elephants
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #140, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

Notes to broadcasters on transport to market
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #140, Notes to Broadcasters, Past Issues

Blog competition on HIV and AIDS: deadline 21 January
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #140, Past Issues, Upcoming Events

BBC online course: Interviewing for radio
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: Issue #140, Past Issues, Radio Resource Bank

Broadcaster Grace Amito organizes training for farmers on bee products
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: Farm Radio International Action, Issue #140, Past Issues

‘Together we stand’ agricultural co-operative society
Date Posted: January 10th, 2011
Posted in: Farm Radio International script of the week, Farm Radio Script of the Week, Issue #140, Past Issues