“Global Food Innovation Summit”

$1,500

Lilian has been a member of Eastern Canada Farm Writers’ Association since the early 2000s, joining the board as a director in 2003 and serving as president from 2005 to 2008. She was an ECFWA rep to the CFWF board in 2009‑10 before stepping down to concentrate on her role as co‑chair of the 2011 Canadian IFAJ congress. After that congress, she was part of the Legacy Fund committee that helped determine how to manage proceeds of the event. Lilian has attended IFAJ congresses since 2007 and was a 2010 Alltech Young Leader, received an IFAJ gold medal in 2011 for my role in congress organization, and have won numerous CFWF writing awards.

Lilian will attend the 2018 Global Food Innovation Summit in Milan, Italy with an interest in topics at the  conference such as innovation and new technology, artificial intelligence, block chain, automation, and genomics/genetics as well as issues related to food waste and food security. She aims to get a broader,  more international perspective on these topics and learn about the latest trends and innovations from global leaders active in this space. She will write news articles about the conference as well as using the information as background for future stories and industry innovation projects and programs. Lilian will share the information on social media as well as make presentations as requested.

$2,000

Angela has been a professional freelance writer for more than 25 years, writing primarily for Canadian and international agricultural print and online media. Publications include Grainews, Country Guide, Manitoba Co‑operator, Canadian Cattleman, Western Producer, as well as organizational newsletters such as Manitoba Beef Producers, Keystone Agricultural Producers and the Manitoba Forage & Grasslands Association. She is a past winner of the Canadian Farm Writers Federation Gold Monthly Press Reporting – Jack Cram Award in 2015 and the Silver Press Feature – Dick Beamish Award in 2016 and was sponsorship chair of the Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference for six years.

Angela will explore the challenge of sustaining food production in a changing environment through a tour and conference at the AranLife Project in Ireland. She will provide insights into this High Nature Value farming system that recognizes culture, ecology, environmental adaptation and eco‑tourism as essential elements to the continued sustainability and viability of food production, farm life and rural communities within its unique geography. She will collect content for articles about sustainable farming systems that incorporate production, environmental conservation and eco‑tourism to bring back to a Canadian audience, as well as producing videos to offer for publication to online and social media.

]]> https://cfwf.ca/2018-motor-rally-with-russian-dairy-farmers-suzanne-atkinson/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 19:25:32 +0000 https://cfwf.ca/?p=826 “Motor Rally with Russian Dairy Farmers”

$1,500

Suzanne has been a regular contributor to Ontario Farmer Publications for 24 years, covering all aspects of agricultural news in central Ontario. Previously she spent 10 years as an editor at a now defunct, small town daily. With her husband and son, she is also a full time dairy farmer at Rainbowsend, a 40‐cow purebred Holstein operation. She has been an active CFWF member for about 17 years and was an ECFWA organizer of the 2007 CFWF conference in Prince Edward County. She subsequently hosted representatives of 21 countries on the Lake Ontario tour during the 2011 IFAJ Congress.

As a result of the 2017 activity with a Russian journalist, 50 Russian dairy farmers and processors will visit Canada to participate in a 1,250 kilometre car rally. The event begins in Montreal and wraps up in Niagara Falls. “Motor Rally,” an event staged annually in Russia by the on-line publication The Dairy News, will visit dairy (goat and bovine) farms in Quebec and Ontario as well as  manufacturing facilities, and cheese factories. The group will also attend the annual Durham “twilight meeting,” near Bowmanville. Motor Rally is co‐hosted by Leading Livestock Genetics and the City of Kawartha Lakes. The learning will be shared through the publishing of articles, social media and through ECFWA and CFWF newsletter and events. Additionally, CFWF was listed as a sponsor on event publicity.

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