{"id":15174,"date":"2026-06-20T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/farm-radio-wants-iita-collaboration-to-boost-farming-communities\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:48:58","slug":"farm-radio-wants-iita-collaboration-to-boost-farming-communities","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/farm-radio-wants-iita-collaboration-to-boost-farming-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Radio wants IITA collaboration to boost farming communities"},"content":{"rendered":"Farm Radio International, a non-profit organization using radio to help African farming communities support themselves, has indicated an interest to collaborate with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">IITA<\/a>\u00a0in Nigeria. The Farm Radio team disclosed this on 17 February, during a virtual introductory meeting between the two organizations.\n\nThe Farm Radio team included the Country Program Manager, Eucharia Uranta Okonkwo, Country Representative Ghana, Benjamin Fiafor, and Senior Program Development Manager, Karen Hampson. They took turns in presenting the activities of the organization in different countries.\n<div id=\"attachment_7599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/farm-radio.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7599\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/farm-radio.jpg\" alt=\"Farm Radio wants IITA collaboration to boost farming communities\" width=\"820\" height=\"411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7599\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Head of IITA-Abuja Station, Gbassey Tarawali, in a virtual meeting with the Farm Radio team.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nThe Head of IITA-Abuja Station,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/tarawali-gbassey\/\">Gbassey Tarawali<\/a>, welcomed the idea of building synergy with IITA. He gave a brief background on IITA\u2019s activities which span over fifty years. Tarawali\u00a0assured the Farm Radio team that IITA is willing and ready to\u00a0work on collaborative initiatives.\n\nThe Management of Farm Radio and IITA expect to meet again soon to identify mutual areas of interest and develop a joint funding proposal.\n\nFarm Radio International, or Radios Rurales Internationales in French, is a Canadian non-profit organization founded in 1979 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBC_Radio\">CBC Radio<\/a>\u00a0broadcaster\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Atkins_(broadcaster)\">George Atkins<\/a>. The organization\u2019s headquarters is in Ottawa, Ontario. It has become the first international non-profit organization to work uniquely with radio broadcasters\u00a0to improve food security\u00a0and agricultural methods for small-scale farmers in African countries using communication-for-development methods.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm Radio International, a non-profit organization using radio to help African farming communities support themselves, has indicated an interest to collaborate with IITA in Nigeria.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15175,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[1204],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[199],"class_list":["post-15174","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmingfarming-communitiesfood-securityiita-news-no-2577radio","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-199"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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