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| The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) |
They tell us about their association: 'The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
(IFAJ) is a non-political, professional association for agricultural journalists in 29 countries.[...]'.
This definition is probably a guarantee that we can find here what we probably need, because agricultural
journalism, talking to people about agricultural issues, need not to be a politics-free journalism, because its most
important peculiarity is to investigate scientific problems, and science investigation, we know, needs to be
opened to any possible solution. For example, to talk about Farm Bill, or EC Agricultural Policy (CAP) we
do investigate the political issues behind them, but we probably use a scientific neutral approach
to succeed in understanding what policy-makers are going to do in the next future.
Probably we can expect a not political organization could offer us a technical support to understand
some professional issues and to solve problems in doing our work. Really this is what we can find in this web-site,
particularly here are available, in the 'professional development' section, some resources useful to the agricultural
journalist, in making better and more effective his texts. This documents are almost all in '.pdf' format and
help the journalist to solve the following practical problems:
At present we can find the most recent technical issues in the home page. (This review has been composed on August, 29, 2008).
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Newspapers for the English speaking reader |
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University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Agricultural Communications Documentation Center |
As reported in some pages of this web site:
The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) is a very wide literature collection and information
service developed by agricultural communications faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Among the documents
hosted in this web site are also some from the archives of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters (NAFB), others from the
archives of the Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) and others from the International Program for Agricultural
Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS).
In this web-site you can also find lot of documents by means of the web site search engine.
Other sources of informations about agriculture and landscaping are the web site on-line newsletter, a bulletin containing
articles about the communication in the agricultural sector, with statistical data and surveys.
Finally a very long list of web-resources is contained in the 'Useful' link section
(This review has been composed on September, 4, 2008).
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Wikipedia
The meaning of the word:
'Agricultural Extension Service'
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This voice in the Wikipedia web-encyclopedia tell us about the meaning of the expression 'Agricultural extension service',
a very used phrase you can find to denominate a certain technical sector of almost every US university; 'Extensionist' is the
professional who work for this service and whose job is to transfer scientific research results to the people, that in agricultural
sector are mostly the farmers, so that they can get better results in their activity.
For this reason also a journalist can be considered an extensionist and infact
the extension services are those places in which more frequently agricultural journalists work and show their skill in
promoting agricultural novelties and researches. At the bottom of this wikipedia page you can also find a long list of site
where you can reqad more about the 'extension technics'.
(This review has been composed on September, 5, 2008).
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| Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences |
This is the web site of an association who cares the Excellence in Journalism. Its headquarter is in
Florida (USA).
In its web-site are also some resources to better the journalist skills and particularly
here we can find:
(This review has been composed on August, 29, 2008).
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AGNIC
US University Study Programs in Agricultural/Environmental Journalism and Communications
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At this internet page of the AgNIC web site, you can find a list of the US university courses on agricultural journalism, with some details about them. | |
| Agriculture Resorces |
In this blog, mantained by a North American journalist, you can find a lot of resources and sources (briefly
reviewed web sites) to deepen any question
about agriculture. This web site is the agriculture section of a same documentation project and is frequently updated,
so that every time you can find more sites to update your documentation sources about agriculture.
(This review has been composed on September, 8, 2008).
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| Journalism Resources |
In this blog, mantained by a North American journalist, you can find a lot of resources and sources (briefly
reviewed web sites) to deepen any question
about journalism. This web site is the journalism section of a same documentation project and is frequently updated,
so that every time visit it, you can find more sites to update your documentation sources about agriculture.
(This review has been composed on September, 8, 2008).
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| Canadian Farm Writer Federation |
In this little web site of the Canadian Farm Writer Federation you
can download 'The farm Journalist', Newsletter '.pdf', of this association and another newsletter ('The Nib')
with news from the Eastern Canada Farm Writers' Association.
You can find other useful information visiting the sections 'Canadian Farm Media', with links to all the Canadian
Agricultural magaziones and the section 'links' with a selection of other interesting web sites related to the agro-journalist
activity.
(This review has been composed on September, 8, 2008).
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| The Guild of Agricultural Journalists |
It is a British association of agricultural journalists. In this web site there is a search engine by means you can find a journalist with skilled in different specific agricultural sectors. There are also links to the main British agricultural institutions and informations about a lot of agricultural events and news. (This review has been composed on September, 8, 2008).
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American business media Agri council |
This is the web site of the 'Agricultural Council' of the US Association of Business Information Companies, the specific association of the agricultural information enterprises. |
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Agrolinker's english forum ---> Discussion board about agricultural journalism and sources |
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| Home page | Ministries of Agriculture of English speaking countries | |
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