Young leaders look at IFAJ 2010 Congress
The IFAJ-Alltech Young Leaders award winners give their unique perspectives on the IFAJ 2011 Congress in Belgium. To read or listen to their reports, click here...
Annual congress IFAJ 2011
It’s Canada’s turn next!
By Lilian Schaer, IFAJ 2011 Co-Chair
The IFAJ torch – or should I say flag – has officially been passed to Canada as we formally assumed the role of host nation at the farewell banquet of this year’s congress in Belgium.
The International Federation of Agriculture Journalists (IFAJ) hosts its annual conference, called a congress, in a different member country every year. In 2011, Canada will be welcoming farm writers and agricultural communicators to our country for the first time in over forty years. More...
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Through IFAJ, the Cameroonian Association of Agricultural Journalist seeks training placements for some of their members.
Short periods, but of at least one month, are sought, to help agricultural journalists in this country of central and western Africa to develop professionally in all types of media, including radio and television.
JOURNALISTS from Kenya plan to attend IFAJ’s Berlin meeting next January.
They are members of MESHA, which became a member of IFAJ in January 2009.
Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture in Kenya (MESHA) is an association of communicators who are specialised in science, environment, agriculture, health, technology and development reporting. It is a non-partisan and not-for-profit organisation.
IFAJ is a supporting partner of the CropWorld 2010 conference and exhibition in London on November 1 to 3, 2010.
As a supporting partner, IFAJ is promoted on conference websites, and press passes are available for journalists from our member organisations interesting in this leading global sustainable crop production event.
By Matilde Maunahan.
The Philippine Agricultural Journalists, Inc. (PAJ), established on September 10, 1976, is the third and only existing local group of agriculture writers in the Philippines. The second oldest organization of journalists in the country (next only to the National Press Club), it was formed by a group of newsmen and information writers including Ching Ilagan; Max Ballesteros; Jindra Demetrio; Rudy Fernandez; Sanny Galvez; Francis de Guzman; Felix Librero; Francisco Rey...
The state of play in renewable energy around the world is reflected in a survey of IFAJ member organisations carried out by Agropress in Serbia.
WHAT’S it like to be an agricultural communicator in Serbia? That’s the question we put to Agropress, the country’s Association of Agricultural Journalists, who are represented on the IFAJ executive committee by Goran Djakovic.
IFAJ has received the very sad news of the death of Lut de Bruyne in Belgium.
On June 19, it was announced that she died unexpectedly after surgery, aged only 45. It is a great shock for her husband and three children and other family members, for her colleagues in the Belgian Guild of Agricultural Journalists (BVLJ-ABJA), and for all in IFAJ who got to know Lut during the Congress in Belgium last April.
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