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Discover AgroLight Market, the place where supply meets demand
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It is an online market, created early June 2020. The young startupper, Gnepa-Joël Anani, French entrepreneur of Ivorian origin and Founder of AgroLight SARL, thus sees his dream come true through the creation of a new department to promote organic urban agriculture, his specialty. Strongly committed to agriculture, he noticed after eight years of hard work in the production, processing, consulting, project monitoring and import export of agricultural equipments, that

Covid-19, the game changer
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From a media personnel to an entrepreneur and now farmer, Tshinandala Khangale (VhaVenda) was born and bred in Venda, Limpopo province. He is a journalism graduate who further studied a post graduate diploma in TV production. He has worked for different media houses and some government departments until he decided to start his own business. He started a leisure and entertainment business and worked as a director. The business had

Voice for Family Farmers radio campaign materials
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Radio stations can be champions for family farmers. By joining the UNDFF radio campaign, they commit to being the Voice for Family Farmers: inviting farmers to speak on their radio programs and to shape the topics  discussed on the programs. Radio stations can ensure that family farmers have the information they need to make good decisions that improve their lives and livelihoods. They can also connect family farmers with farmer

Join the UNDFF radio campaign!
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The YenKasa Africa radio campaign to celebrate the UN Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) has been launched! This campaign includes materials about the importance of family farmers, background information on the UNDFF, and information about how farmers can stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. These materials and key messages were developed by the partners in the YenKasa Africa initiative, including FAO and regional farmers organizations like the Pan-African Farmers Organizations,

Got questions about COVID-19? Call our hotline - a service for radio broadcasters
Rural Communication Services

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Media plays an essential role during emergencies. But gathering good, up-to-date, information is not always easy, especially when rumours fly. As part of our COVID-19 response, Farm Radio International’s Digital Innovation team set out to create an accessible system for broadcasters to access good information for their programs. Broadcasters carry the responsibility for getting information to communities that are often rural or cut off from more traditional sources of information.

Voices for Change videos
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Short video clip highlighting key messages of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming’s major constituencies. Filmed on the occasion of the UNDFF Launch held in FAO headquarters from 27 to 29 May 2019. Voices for Change: Elizabeth Mpofu, General Coordinator, La Via Campesina Zimbabwe Voices for Change: Kenneth Katungisa, Chief Executive Officer Uganda National Farmers Federation Voices for Change: Editrudith Lukanga, World Forum of Fishers harvesters & Fish (WFF)

Farming is the most lucrative job
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With the stress and money invested in farming and the several reported challenges associated with post-harvest losses, one would say agric is a risky endeavor. It is also known that the reasons most people or young folks shun away from farming to a large extent is due to the perception of farming being laborious, archaic and unprofitable. But the CEO of Okata farms and food processing, Mrs. Mabel-Ann Okata Kwudzo is of the

A resource handbook on running field schools in times of COVID-19
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This handbook provides guidance and suggestions to farmer field school (FFS) facilitators, master trainers, project coordinators and rural advisors on running FFS and other agricultural training activities in times of COVID-19. It includes basic protective measures, important considerations, proposed FFS activities, links to the World Health Organization (WHO) resources and videos and more. http://www.fao.org/3/ca9064en/CA9064EN.pdf  

Cabbage small scale farmer resigned from a high paying job to pursue farming
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“As far as I can remember, my dad never had a job, he always worked for himself. He was a builder and a farmer, producing maize, potatoes, cabbage and spinach. He also had a few goats” Mr Mthuthuzeli Gqiza is a small scale cabbage farmer from Goso location in Mt Ayliff, Eastern Cape, South Africa. “I come from a very poor background and I was raised by uneducated parents. There