Rural Communication Services

In January 2023, IOM and FAO completed the pilot phase of Sheeko Wadaag. ‘Sheeko Wadaag’ means ‘storytelling’ in Somali. It is a community radio listening program that focuses on relevant events, stories, challenges and issues shared directly through the voices of community members. The scope of this community radio project is setting up and operationalizing an integrated community feedback systems that engage beneficiary communities (IDPs and host communities) beyond project-based

The YenKasa Africa Radio Campaign for family farmers in six African countries The YenKasa Africa Radio Initiative was a game-changer in promoting family farming in Africa. The project’s success was evident in the number of listeners reached, with over 5 million tuning in through six local radios across six African countries. Across the six African countries – Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Togo, the radio partners broadcasted in local

A national e-agriculture (or digital agriculture) strategy promotes the emergence of a common understanding of issues related to adopting digital technology for agrifood systems performance. It favours the deployment in the synergy of transformational actions. The design of these policy documents has accelerated in recent years in Africa. The first attempts started in the mid-2000s with the insertion of a chapter relating to agriculture in digital development strategies. Since the

Today we celebrate World Radio Day with the theme “Radio and Peace“. To celebrate this year’s World Radio Day, FAO in Somalia is carrying out a project called “Promoting Inclusive Action in Peacebuilding Initiative” (PIAP), which aims to directly respond to the ambitious peacebuilding and sustainable development agenda of the Federal Government of Somalia as outlined in the National Development Plan (NDP) 9 and other strategic and framework policies. This

IAMCR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) offer four awards of 2,500 USD to authors of papers that advance our understanding of Rural Communication Services (RCS) applications. Within the context of the IAMCR 2023 conference, with the theme of “Inhabiting the planet: Challenges for media, communication and beyond”, IAMCR’s Rural Communication Working Group (RUC) has issued a call for papers that critically explore the conference

In cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), IAMCR is offering four awards of 2,500 USD to authors of papers that advance our understanding of applications of “rural communication services” particularly in the areas of agriculture, family farming, natural resource management, climate change adaptation, food security, and disaster risk reduction and management. Special attention will be given to papers that consider elements such as the participatory design

The Collaborative Change Communication for Rural Development (CCComDev) initiative invites you to the International Webinar on Advancing Rural Communication Services (RCS) for Family Farming. Language: English You can register now: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtdOuuqjgjH9N3nyvQ9Nq4mUVHAJHZGUu8 The webinar is co-convened by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)  – College of Development Communication and the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) – Rural Communication Working Group. The webinar features speakers and panel