Journalism

Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are using broadcast journalism to improve farming practices in Africa and South America:

Much has been made of the Internet revolution, but the genius of communicating ideas across borders does not necessarily require cutting edge technology. In fact, for many people, there's one good old-fashioned technology that has a greater power for change: radio.

For people who live in remote rural areas around the globe, without easy access computers and who don’t read or speak the most common languages of the Web—English, Spanish, French—the Internet is not much use. But a global exchange of ideas and information happens anyway, in part thanks to Farm Radio International.

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