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In this week’s Farm Radio Weekly:

African Farm News in Review

1. Liberia: Women mix indigenous and NERICA rice in effort to bridge “hunger gap” (Inter Press Service) [1]

2. East Africa: Handmade banana briquettes could replace firewood (BBC News) [2]

Upcoming Events

June 15, 2009: Deadline to apply for International Children’s Day of Broadcasting Award [3]

Radio Resource Bank

Updated manual on HIV and AIDS reporting [4]

Farm Radio Action

4th Pan African AMARC Africa Conference strengthens community radio (by Modibo Coulibaly, National Coordinator for the African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) in Mali) [5]

Farm Radio Script of the Week

Let’s talk about it: A young couple plans pregnancy and childbirth [6]