Journalists’ Agroecology Media Grant 2023

• Eligibility:
  – You must be a professional agriculture journalist reporting for an established media house. Early-career, women and indigenous journalists are especially encouraged to apply.
  – The journalists must be knowledgeable in reporting on Agroecology issues and specifically state the stories they want to cover in their localities.
• Type of funding: Programmatic
• Target countries: Uganda
• Application language: English

The Agroecology School for Journalists and Communicators which is under ESAFF Uganda is pleased to introduce the Agroecology Media Grant an innovation to support the coverage of stories that are focused on agroecology in Uganda and beyond.

The Agroecology Media Grant seeks to promote and amplify just and inclusive news and narratives around agroecology, based on the belief that accurate and compelling media plays an important role in informing, engaging, and activating individuals and groups to take part in practices and processes to protect our food systems. This grant’s objective is to assist local journalists in covering local agriculture news.

Small-scale farmers in Uganda came up with the idea for the Agroecology School for Journalists and Communicators to encourage journalists and communicators to appreciate and promote Agroecology. As more individuals switched to eating healthier foods that small-scale farmers produce, this would also benefit both the general public’s health and the farmers’ incomes.

Focus Areas

• Climate change
• Seed and land rights
• Gender inequality
• Funding agroecology
• Environment
• Education
• Corruption

See here to learn more and apply.

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