Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Farm Radio Forum
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Description area
Dates of existence
1941-1965
History
Farm Radio Forum was a national, rural-focused, listening-discussion program sponsored by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Between 1941-1965 some 27,000 people across the country gathered in neighborhood groups on Monday evenings, from November through March, to listen to a radio broadcast and discuss associated social and economic issues, supported by printed materials and questions. The program spurred the growth of co-operatives, new forums and folk schools. In 1954 UNESCO published a report on the Farm Radio Forum that led to similar rural aid development projects in India, Ghana and France.