Flowering of a cagaita tree, a local brazilian fruit. Photo: P Petithuguenin, CIRAD, France

Deforestation in the brazilian savannah. Photo: P Petithuguenin, CIRAD, France

Study of C cycling in eucalitpus plantation. Photo: P Petithuguenin, CIRAD, France

Terraces in Tashi-Là, Nepal. Photo: Max Lehmann, SDC, Switzerland

Sunset in the south american pantanal region. Photo: P Petithuguenin, CIRAD, France

Terrace cropping. Photo: Max Lehmann, SDC, Switzerland

Tree seedlings. Photo: Toni Linder, SDC, Switzerland

School in Niangagwe, Botswana. Gardening lesson. Photo: SDC, Switzerland

Conservation agriculture applied to horticulture in Africa. Photo: BEAF, Germany

Vegetable production in Asia. Photo: BEAF, Germany

Fishermen on Lake Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: J Kalders, Belgium

System Wide Programme for Integrated Pest Management. Example of a Farmers Field School in Ghana. Project co-funded by Italy. Photo: S.David, IITA

Intercopping bananas and beans in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. CIALCA Project. Photo: DGDC (Directorate-General Development Cooperation), Belgium

Bridging the divide between natural resource conservation strategies and the role of key forest genetic resources in Niassa National Reserve, Mozambique. Photo: Isabel Moura, IICT, Portugal

Village-level market-driven rice intensification - developing a sustainable model in the Zambezi province of Mozambique. Photo: Ana Ribeiro, IICT, Portugal

Thanks to Farm Input Promotions Africa’s (FIPS) network of 150 village-based advisors, 150,000 East African smallholder farmers now benefit from improved crop varieties and better agricultural practices. FIPS is supported by the DFID-funded Research Into Use programme. Photo: DFID, UK.

Young girl with child in Laos – System Wide Programme on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis. Project co-funded by Italy. Photo: CIAT

Improvement of the "Pomme du Sahel", Zyziphus mauritania. Project co-funded by Italy. Photo: ICRISAT

Testing banana varieties for disease resistance in Burundi. CIALCA Project. Photo: DGDC (Directorate-General Development Cooperation), Belgium

In less than 12 months ShujaazFM has become the largest circulation publication in East Africa.  Support from the DFID-funded Research Into Use programme has ensured stories based on agricultural research are regularly included. So far over 5 million comics, each read by up to 5 readers, have been circulated. Around a thousand young people a week contact ShujaazFM for further information or to comment on the stories. Photo: DFID, UK.