Hello Emmanuel @retlinks
Welcome! We are delighted to have you here. I believe we can learn from the findings of your research as we get deeper into discussions on collaboration.
I believe the fact that you think your hobbies are strange make them feel strange. That got me to think of how strange they are!
Enjoy the discussions
Hello Brian @KizitoBriankironde
Welcome to our discussion on collaboration. We are glad you joined us and believe we will learn a lot from each other. Is there any particular topic around collaboration that you would like to discuss with others? What are your hobbies?
Cheers
Hello everyone here,
I am Jaspher Okello from Radio Pacis in Uganda. A Radio Journalist whose role is majorly news and broadcast. I come host Farmers talk, among other set of programs.
I expect to learn more about collaboration with resourceful persons for Community farmers voice, what different stakeholders can play in improving farmers program on Radio.
I like making new friends and am more interested to know more about continental issues as we shape our future now.
Peace of Christ for all
Hello Jaspher @Jaskello
Welcome. We are happy to have you here and for sure what you want to learn is exactly what we would like to achieve.
Enjoy 
Good day olusina motiasan is my name from Ejulenen 93.7fm igbodigo, okitipupa, ondo state, Nigeria. A programmer, producer, and a presenter.collaboration with stakeholders do helps in address gender issues whenever we present an agricultural radio program that has to do with both gender for example when I presented a program on our station Ejulenen 93.7fm igbodigo, the program was titled agbeloba(farmers are king) in a certain topic:waste to wealth,males produced the waste while females converted it to wealth this easily address the gender issue
Good evening from Kabale, Uganda!
My name is Brenda Mugwisagye, I work with Voice of Kigezi,FM based in south western Uganda, an area famous for practicing crop farming on hilly and mountainous terrain.
Am a Producer and Presenter for radio programs which include the farming and agribusiness program - “B’omugaiga” which literally translates to Get Rich, through farming. I also do some reporting.
Learning never ends, I hope to learn more from this discussion, especially ideas I can implement for better radio programming through good collaboration with farming/agriculture /other stakeholders.
It’s a great pleasure meeting you all online for this discussion and I look forward to interacting with you. Thank you.
Hi Brenda @Mugwisagye
Welcome! We are glad you have joined us. I believe at the end of it all we will come up with improved radio programs.
Enjoy!
Hi everyone,
Peace greetings.
I am Pr. Lazarus Laiser a Maasai from Arusha a garden of Eden, and the land of Kilimanjaro Tanzania. I am working with Farm Radio International Tanzania Office, as the Project Officer.
My interests and hobby are in tourism, swimming etc.
My experience in media is from 1995 and focused on spiritual and agricultural radio programs production and broadcast. My aim from that time to date is to serve small scale farmers and pastoralists who seems to be forgotten in poor life. It is true there is a big challenge with collaboration especially developmental programs like agriculture.
Looking forward for way forward on this matter
Thank you
Its time to see what can be done to catalyses this to happen.
Hello Lazarus @lazarus
Welcome! We are delighted to have you here. We hope you will share some of the experiences you might have especially with regard to stakeholder collaboration.
Cheers
Benefit of broadcaster and stakeholders collaborating farm program is it enable them to know more about what they were practicing and help both to key into the new innovative for instance the topic reducing post-harvest in maize that is the uses of been leaves as pesticides which is new to some farmers which makes listen to that very particular program on radio
My name is Gift Malambo. I am journalist working for Liberty FM Radio in Zambia. I have been radio broadcasting on agricultural related matters for more than 15 years. I am locally known to be the producer and reporter for two of the most popular agricultural radio programs on the national radio station (ZNBC radio 2) called “Voice of the Farmer” and “Farming Today”. These programs are also aired in some Zambian local languages.
In my spare time, I like playing chess game. It refreshes my mind as I try to think what to report on that is relevant to the farmers.
In Zambia, the climate change is a challenge which has affected many farmers despite facing other problems such as timely access to quality farming inputs, modern training on matters related to crop production and farming management. There is need to promote new innovations and improved technologies whose research findings are in line with government agricultural policies of increasing agricultural production. The need for investment in agriculture/ research, seed breeding, and seed processing as well as providing crop protection solutions in light of challenges such as climate change, low yields, diseases, pest and drought.
Hello Gift @GiftMalambo
Welcome! We are glad you have joined us. Thank you for sharing the challenges faced by farmers in Zambia. When we get to actually talk about collaboration, we will see how understanding challenges faced can assist us in choosing the right stakeholders to collaborate with.
Enjoy the discussion
I believe I also have to introduce myself. My name is Busisiwe Ngcebetsha. I am a South African. I am a Distance Learning consultant with Farm Radio International. I have a background in radio. I have worked for a community radio station for a number of years before deciding to enroll for a course in radio production. I have also worked for an NGO whose main focus was to develop community media. We trained community radio stations and other organisations on content development and other aspects of radio. I have also been consulted by FRI from time to time to moderate discussions and facilitate online courses.
I am happy to be here and I believe I will also learn a lot from this discussion. Where I am, most stakeholder organisations do not use the broadcasting services because they have no budget for it. At the same time radio stations need stakeholders to produce quality informative programs. I would like to know how stations and stakeholders can meet each other halfway in making sure they all benefit from collaborating.
One of my hobbies is traveling. I enjoy meeting new people from different cultures, trying different things.
Cheers
Good day everyone in the house, am olusina motiasan currently with Ejulene 93.7 FM igbodigo,okitipupa,ondo state,Nigeria. A programmer,producer,presenter, reporter and news caster
I wish I discuss with busi herself on this collaboration with broadcaster and stakeholders.I just want people to share with me what can make young presenter like me get more present and produce good farm radio program
Though from my own end we still have more listeners and followers that do listen to our program but funding do still give us issues
Hello Olusina
We are glad to have you here. I can understand your enthusiasm. Hang in there, we will have a lot to talk about from next week when we get into content on collaboration. This week was just introductions
Olusina motiasan is my name from Ejulenen 93.7fm presenter, producer,programmer.benefit of broadcaster and stakeholders collaborating on farm radio program,it will create better avenue for both presenter and stakeholders to gain from each other also,it will encourage people in engaging farm practices
Hi Olusina @Olusina
We will certainly talk about how to improve production of your farmer program. That is why we are here.
Thank you very much am very glad you are there