Bienvenue à Farm Radio Live
avril 28, 2009 | Category: Directeur Général
Posted By: Kevin Perkins
Bienvenue à Farm Radio Live – le blogue de Radios Rurales Internationales! Nous avons créé ce blogue pour garder la communauté de Radios Rurales Internationales – y compris nos bailleurs de fonds, nos partenaires et toute personne ayant un intérêt pour les radios rurales en Afrique – à jour sur nos activités, nos réalisations, nos découvertes, nos plans et nos idées.
Kevin Perkins, à Bamako, Mali
Je vous propose un nouveau billet à toutes les 2 semaines, pour vous dire ce que je fais et ce qu’il y a de nouveau à Radios Rurales Internationales. Nous publierons fréquemment des billets à propos de nos activités en provenance de nos partenaires et nos employés, ainsi que les dernières nouvelles en provenance du Cercle des producteurs, des mises à jour sur la façon dont nous utilisons les nouvelles technologies de la communication pour accroître l’efficacité de la radio, et des billets spéciaux d’une multitude de personnes impliquées dans le domaine des radios rurales. Le blogue vous permettra également d’écouter des éléments audio et de visionner des vidéo-clips de programmation radiophonique africaine, des photos et des histoires locales, vous offrant une véritable expérience de ce à quoi ressemble une radio rurale africaine.
Nous espérons que vous participerez à ce blogue – non seulement en tant que lecteur, mais aussi en tant que contributeur, en y laissant vos commentaires, vos histoires et vos observations. Si vous vous inscrivez au fil RSS en cliquant ici, vous recevrez de brèves mises à jour par courriel chaque fois qu’il y a un nouveau message sur le blogue, vous permettant de suivre les histoires et les mises à jour qui vous intéressent le plus.
En 2009, nous sommes fiers de célébrer le 30e anniversaire de Radios Rurales Internationales. Le blogue Farm Radio Live vous amènera des histoires sur nos premiers partenaires et donateurs, qui vous présenteront leurs réflexions sur la manière dont l’organisation a évolué au fil des années – et comment elle est restée fidèle à la vision de son fondateur – tout au long des 30 dernières années.
Jusqu’à la prochaine fois…
Kevin Perkins
(Directeur Général, Radios Rurales Internationales)
Mots-clefs :Directeur Général, Programme
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Who are We?
Farm Radio International is a Canadian-based, not-for-profit organization working in direct partnership with approximately 300 radio broadcasters in 39 African countries to fight poverty and food insecurity.
Mary Atkins Carley
on mai 1st, 2009Congratulations DCFRN>FRI on 30 years!!! Honouring the collective community of the many many people over all these years…partners and farmers in Africa and around the world, contributers of knowledge, Kevin, Brenda, all the staff and AFRRI field staff, volunteers, and members of the board both present and former,donors,and last but not least, honouring my Dad, George Atkins who came home from Africa 30 years ago having had an epiphany, and he never looked back, except to know he together with so many many others could make a difference…
Thanks so very much to everyone…
Mary Atkins Carley
Peter Koutris
on mai 4th, 2009Hi Mary
I look forward to postings on this blog
highlighting Farm Radio’s activities
I have a question…
Since these scripts are broadcast over radio
,how accessible and available are radios to farmers in these farming communities ?
kevin
on mai 4th, 2009Hi Peter,
Thanks for your question. Recently, through our African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI), we conducted a survey of 4000 farming households in 5 African countries to ask a number of questions about farming practices and about how farmers use radio. We learned that, in these 5 countries, 83% of rural households own radio sets. The range was 61% (Malawi) to over 90% (Mali). Even those without their own sets can listen to radio programs with their neighbours, and often do, especially when their favourite programs are on. Farm radio shows are consistently among the most popular. It should be noted, though, that some regions and countries have lower rates of radio ownership – in northern Ghana, for instance, 50-70% of households do not own a radio, while in other regions of Ghana, more than 80% do own radios. However, generally, we expect ownership to continue to increase as the cost of radios drops and more solar and wind-up radios come on the market.
- Kevin
Helen Hambly Odame
on mai 6th, 2009Hi Farm Radio International
Congratulations on the 30th Anniversary! No doubt FRI has grown up into a vibrant network of information, knowledge and action that empowers resource poor farmers and communities across Africa. As Canadians we should be proud of this achievement! As global citizens we need to keep up the good work!
YES … despite three decades of effort the work of FRI is far from done. New radio stations with new technical possibilities and responsibilities for sharing knowledge are emerging across rural Africa. Farmers, especially women and young entrepreneurs, want so much to get access to the best possible information to help themselves and their families. FRI has done a great job in working with radio broadcasters to share information with farmers so that it is locally relevant and shared in local languages. FRI also uses appropriate formats that entertain as well as educate.
Kevin, count me in on anything we can do to help more radio stations across Africa connect to FRI and get involved in better knowledge sharing for agriculture and rural development.
Let me add my special thanks to everyone – from the radio broadcasters out in Africa, to the staff in Ottawa and Africa – to the donors in Canada and agencies around the world who have helped FRI reach its 30th Anniversary … and to reach further into the future!
Helen
Bertie (LEISA's Farm)
on mai 13th, 2009Hi, congratulations on your jubilee and also on the new blog!
Martine Ngobo
on mai 21st, 2009Million thanks Kevin for starting this blog! It confirms – if still needed – what we at AFRRI think of you: that you are not « talking the talk »… but you do really « walk the walk »! This is something that might seem small to some, but for those of us coming from other NGos working out here in Africa to help small-scale farmers get better livelihoods, this is just a blessing.
Many of our partner broadcasters have been requesting for audio (and/or video) files from FRI; and I am sure this Blog will answer their needs, and they will indeed contribute greatly provided we make sure they get news of this opportunity.
Long life to Farm Radio International!!!
Regards from the field,
Martine.
Anton Kuerti
on mai 31st, 2009In looking for your website, Google led me to http://farmradionetwork.org/ Perhaps this is outdated, I see now that there is a far superior one at http://www.farmradio.org/ . Surely the old one should be eliminated. I tried to submit feedback, but not even that worked. What I wrote was as follows: The website has a number of mistakes, and looks generally disorganized and unfocused. It makes it look as though Nigeria were the only country where you operate. On the 7th line of text the word « in » is missing: users IN an interactive manner. In the list under the « road map », both words are misspelled in « Baseline Survey. Some lines below that « February » is misspelled. This makes a terrible impression. Near the bottom left there is overlapping text. The whole thing seems terribly out of date as it features a project which ended in 2005. The bottom of the feedback page also has seriously overlapping text, and its heading should be Feedback not Feed Back. As a longtime supporter I would like to see a much better image presented….
mark
on juin 1st, 2009Hi Anton,
Thanks for the input. However, I want to bring to your attention that http://farmradionetwork.org/ is not in any way affiliated with Farm Radio International. This is an entirely different organization that has never been part of the the work we are doing. I agree that their website could use some work.
Hopefully this did not cause too much confusion. We appreciate your long time support and hope to maintain it with good quality programming in farm radio as well as professional presentation on our website.
Sincerely,
Mark Leclair
Farm Radio International
G.hiwot tesfa
on février 25th, 2010This is G.hiwot from Ethiopia OF Mekelle city. My job is a journalist in Dimtsiwoyane Radio station here in mekelle.the programe that I have been working in the radio is about agricultural practices in Ethiopia especilly in Tigray. and am so happy to get your website so as to join and get information from. it is for the first time to see you. And believe me, from now onwards am your regular member to visit your programmes. becouse your idea is directly related to ours. your program is very interesting and highly influencial farmers to inhance their agricultural productivity especialy in the countries like ethiopia. 85 percent of the population livelhood is based on agriculture. farmers highly need information to upgrade their productivity. therefore, your may persue of getting access here in our area.
I realy apreciate your effort.
thankyou
G.hiwot
G.hiwot tesfa
on février 25th, 2010if you want to listen our program you can visit http://www.dimtsiwoyane.com, but you may not understand it, bc it is by a local language Tigrigna.