Our Mission

IFAJ gives agricultural journalists and communicators a platform for professional development and international networking.

Agriculture is an evolving industry that provides the most basic needs – food, fibre and energy - for a growing population. In many parts of the earth farmers play a key role in populating and maintaining the countryside. Providing helpful information to the world’s farmers, as well as reporting new trends to consumers, is critical to the future of the planet.

The world’s agricultural media - in newspapers, magazines, radio, broadcast and Internet - report on dozens of issues daily, weekly and monthly:

• Local production, marketing practices and farm profitability
• Biofuel, globalization and world markets
• Trade and farm policy issues
• The increasing need to drive down costs and lift production
• Increasing consumer pressure for safe food and sustainable production practices
• New technologies and best practices
• The challenge to feed the world’s poor
• Better environmental sustainability

From Africa to America, from Europe to Japan, the members of IFAJ are professionals whose mission is to tell the world about agriculture. They are journalists, editors, photographers, designers and communicators involved in national associations of agricultural communicators in the free world. Their audiences are farmers, consumers, and everyone in between.

The IFAJ is a non-political, not-for-profit professional association with membership covering 29 countries that embrace freedom of the press. IFAJ serves current members and reaches out to new member countries in South America, Asia and developing nations.

The IFAJ is volunteer organization lead by elected leaders. Members in each affiliated country are represented by an individual who serves on the IFAJ executive committee. This leadership group meets twice a year to conduct IFAJ business and formulate policy for its members. A part-time executive secretary helps facilitate the organization’s work.

The organization is supported by member-paid dues and through corporate sponsorships from companies including John Deere, DeLaval, Merial and Alltech. Sponsorship information is available from the Executive Secretary Connie Siemes at secretary(at)ifaj.org