Planning continues for the 2023 IFAJ World Congress in Olds, Alberta, Canada, just north of the major city of Calgary. The theme of the congress, which will be held June 27-July 3, 2023, is New Frontiers in the Wild West.
Alberta’s prairie farms are famous around the world for producing vast quantities of wheat, barley, canola, beef and bison. The province’s farmers also produce potatoes, sugar beets, lentils, peas, vegetables and honey. Plus, Alberta has nurtured a food scene that’s as diverse as the farmers, processors and chefs who drive it.
A pre-congress tour hosted by the British Columbia Farm Writers’ Association will bring guests through the beautiful coastal region over the Rocky Mountains between June 23 and 27.
Mark your calendar, visit https://www.ifaj2023.ca/ for details…and make sure you check out the beautiful video!
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The Asociación Mexicana de Periodistas y Directores de Medios Agripecuarios (AMEXMA) is organizing a press tour and hosting the 2023 winter meeting of the IFAJ Executive 22 to 27 February in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
The world is in a way small, but if you take advantage of the opportunity to network it makes your horizons and your preferences wider.
The IFAJ/Corteva Master Class Program provides training and networking through on-site streaming sessions, in-person classroom workshops, and assignments.
Start preparing for a great opportunity: to be chosen as the best in the world in your specialty!
Each IFAJ member guild can submit one nominee for the IFAJ/Alltech Young Leader Award. Applications will be due by January 30, 2023.
At the invitation of Alpha Ousmane Souaré of the Association Média et Agriculture pour le Développement Rural (AMEDAR/Guinée), a member of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists, five (5) journalists from the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists (BGAJ) went on a journey of discovery and experience sharing in Guinea
One of IFAJ’s newest members is a federation formed by merging three associations in Nepal: The Nepal Agricultural Journalists Academy (JONAA), the Agricultural Journalists Society Nepal (SAJ) and the Agricultural Communication Society. Here’s how they did it.
We will encourage our member guilds to utilize the buddy system introduced at the IFAJ to get connected with other guilds outside of Africa. These efforts could mean a lot in driving our network stronger,” said network President Jefferson Massah.
“I can try and steer away from the cliches and fixed neat narratives often trotted out by public figures when they are talking about themselves and their lives, and try instead to shift the discussion slightly differently in the hope of peeling away a few more ‘layers of the onion’…”
We were welcomed with flower garlands, fed the most aromatic curry, brewed the best tea and treated to home made burfi wrapped in silver petals. If an opportunity to visit India ever arises, grab it with both hands!
Out of 15 communications skills listed in the survey, social media, multimedia production processes and video training ranked as the top three areas where IFAJ members wanted training.
