As we stand on the brink of our 70th anniversary, IFAJ is in the process of registering with the British government as a limited corporation. That will provide us with formal recognition and access to better bank accounts, insurance services and other necessities of modern organizations. But under British law, IFAJ’s voting system does not allow us to call ourselves a “federation,” a term reserved for organizations that operate under a one-member, one-vote system.
After a member survey in September and an in-depth discussion of the IFAJ Executive at the 2025 Congress in Kenya, the Delegate Assembly accepted the Executive’s recommendation to rename IFAJ the International Forum of Agricultural Journalists. The new name will appear on our registration papers, and will take effect when they are approved by Britain’s Companies House.
“This new name will allow us to maintain our ‘IFAJ’ identity—which is recognized worldwide as the only global organization dedicated to agricultural journalists and communicators—and also to move forward to a new stage of recognition that will allow us to thrive in the modern world of organizations,” said Steve Werblow, IFAJ president.