Covering Poverty and Food Security, 22-23 April, Jhb

Food riots across Africa, sparked by the global economic crisis, have made food security the continent’s most pressing issue. Is your newsroom equipped to cover the issue quickly, intelligently and in depth?

Africa is home to three-quarters of the world’s “ultra-poor”. Food aid may solve their immediate hunger, but longer-term solutions are needed to bolster food security.

Sign up your journalists to the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme’s two-day training workshop on Monday and Tuesday 22-23 March in Dunkeld West, Johannesburg.

Research scientists translating to ordinary mortals

There are scientists in Southern Africa doing incredible, ground-breaking research, but their work doesn’t get into the media because scientists talk in their own language – which journalists don’t usually understand.
 To help scientists get their work into the public domain, frayintermedia will present a morning session to scientists at a workshop in Gaborone on March [...]

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