Jun 10, 2018
In this week's program we'll get a preview of the International
Federation of Agricultural Journalists annual Congress which will
take place in the Netherlands this year. I spoke via Skype with one
of the organizers of the Congress, Jacqueline Wijbenga,
Adjunct-uitgever, Eisma Businessmedia. We discussed the program and
the theme of this year's Congress.
The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ)
annually organizes a world congress. Alternately, the congress
takes place in Europe and on another continent. After previous
editions in Germany (2016) and South Africa (2017) the conference
will take place in the Netherlands in July 2018. The congress
organization is appointed by the IFAJ at the request of the NVLJ,
the Dutch Association for Agricultural and Horticultural
Journalism. The conference will hook on to the centenary that
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) celebrates in 2018. The
congress organization is controlled by the independent foundation
Dutch Roots, which is based on the voluntary commitment of NVLJ
members and a conference manager who partly receives paid hours of
work.
The Dutch Roots board has set Dutch Roots: small country big
solutions as the denominator for the Dutch agricultural product
chains. The starting point for the IFAJ2018 World Congress program
and the route towards it, is that the foundation and its activities
provide a platform for numerous journalistic productions for
(agricultural) journalists worldwide.
Looking ahead, the IFAJ Congress in 2019 will be held in the United
States in the Minneapolis, MN area. More information on that will
be forthcoming.