Farmers’ Voice Radio

Over the last 10 years, we have reached over millions of desperately poor people across Africa through our Farmers’ Voice Radio projects.
Radio provides fast and accessible information to farming communities on issues as wide-ranging as climate change, crop management, governance and market prices. This builds knowledge, skills, livelihoods and collective confidence.
We are now growing this impact through offering our Farmers’ Voice Radio work through open source; making our approach, materials and expertise freely available anywhere it can make a positive change for small farming communities who want to set up their own Farmers’ Voice Radio programme. Go to our dedicated website at farmersvoiceradio.org for more!

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Through the medium of local radio and SMS (text messaging) we reach millions of smallholder farmers with the information that they need in order to manage and sell their crops effectively.

The farmers ‘set the questions’ for our radio programmes and our local partners provide them with  answers from experts in the field, as well as the knowledge of experienced local farmers.  The ‘added value’ is that other important messages for communities can be incorporated into the content on the airwaves (i.e. HIV/AIDs awareness, leadership/governance learning, reducing ‘city-drift,’ female empowerment, youth engagement etc.)

Our first ‘Farmer Radio’ programme was in Kenya, and named Dhahabu Ya Murimi  (meaning ‘Farmer’s Gold); it reached and audience of around 4.5 million people (half a million coffee farmers.) You can read more about its successes here.

We have subsequently also set up Farmer Radio projects in Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana  Burkina Faso

NOW WE NEED *YOUR* HELP!

We are looking to partner with businesses and other organisations who can help us to reach as many poor farming communities as possible – using Farmers’ Voice Radio.

To find out more on how you can help with this, go to www.farmersvoiceradio.org or contact us.