Our 2024 Food Security Journalism Award WinnerS
August 12, 2024
With such a strong batch of entries for the 2024 Crawford Fund Food Security Journalism Award there were two awards given in 2024.
The joint winners of the 2024 Food Security Journalism Award were announced by the Crawford Fund’s chair, The Hon John Anderson AC, at the opening of the Crawford Fund’s 2024 Annual Conference. The winners are:
Pip Courtney, ABC TV Landline for Cows for Cambodia – Changing Lives One Cow at a Time
Emma Field, ABC Rural East Timor and Victorian agricultural scientists helping control African Swine Fever
The judges also gave a special mention to Kath Sullivan for her entry Fertiliser is essential for feeding the world but at what cost?
“It was a difficult job this year, with entries investigating a range of challenges and opportunities around food security,” said Cathy Reade, Director of the Crawford Fund’s Outreach Program. Cathy develops the program for the visit in consultation with the winner and project partners, and accompanies the winner on the trip to make sure all goes well.
“We particularly wish to thank all the journalists who applied this year,” she said.
Other entries were:
| Neena Bhandari | Inter Press Service News Agency |
| Vanessa Binks | Australian Community Media |
| Fiona Broom | ABC Rural |
| Roderick Chambers | The Wire |
| Gregor Heard | Australian Community Media |
| Kristy O’Brien | ABC Landline |
| Hayley Warden | Australian Community Media |
The Crawford Fund’s Food Security Journalism Award is part of our efforts to encourage Australian journalists to delve into the important issues around global food and nutrition security.
The prizes for the awards will be ‘seeing is believing’ visits to a developing country interacting with passionate researchers and local farmers, and then sharing their stories with the Australian public.
Previous awards have supported radio, print and TV journalists with visits to Morocco, India, Taiwan, Timor Leste, Colombia and Nepal. These visits result in significant media coverage of issues related to agricultural development and food and nutrition security to a wide Australian audience.
Special thanks to this year’s judging panel – communications expert Edwyn Shiell, Director, Communications & Outreach at the Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering; ag science expert Dr James Quilty, General Manager Research at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, and Cathy.
