Crawford Fund Award

Crawford Fund 2025 Food Security Journalism Award

Are you a journalist who has reported on a food and nutrition security issue in Australia in the last year? Are you keen to experience first-hand some agricultural projects that are improving lives in a developing country?

The Crawford Fund has launched its 2025 Food Security Journalism Award. This award enables the winning journalist to undertake a ‘seeing is believing’ visit to a developing country, interacting with passionate researchers and local farmers, and then sharing their stories with the Australian public.

“This award is part of our efforts to draw attention to the significant impact of research to improve food and nutrition security, and the role that Australians and Australian support play,” Crawford Fund outreach program director Cathy Reade said.

Cathy develops the program for the visit in consultation with the winner and project partners, and accompanies the winner on the trip to make sure all goes well.

“In over 30 years of Crawford Fund journalist visits, we haven’t had a hiccup, and we’ve been wherever there is interesting work around agriculture for development – from the Pacific to Africa, to South America and across Asia, and even to the Arctic,” she said.

“The winner gets an extraordinary opportunity to experience and report on work underway. I have found that what the journalist (and I) enjoy the most is meeting the passionate men and women dedicated to improving food and nutrition security, and the farmers who benefit.”

Working journalists in Australia should submit a piece of completed work on an issue related broadly to food security and nutrition that is published (either in print, broadcast or online) between 1 May 2024 and the close of business on Thursday, 1 May 2025.

Submit entries to Cathy Reade at the Crawford Fund at cathy.reade@crawfordfund.org by COB Friday, 30 May 2025, to be considered by a reviewing/judging panel.

The winner will be announced at the Crawford Fund’s annual conference, Australia’s key food security, held in Canberra on 11-12 August 2025. Further details, including the application and judging processes, are available here.

Entries may touch on any topics related to global food security (food supply, production, R&D, trade, food loss and waste, biosecurity, training, policy issues, etc) but should not have just an Australian food security/supply focus.

Please read the background document here for more information, but if you have any questions, feel free to contact Cathy Reade.

Don’t leave your entry to the last minute. If you have produced a food and nutrition security-related article or broadcast between 1 May 2024 and the close of business on Thursday, 1 May 2025, we want to hear from you, and there’s still time to produce an eligible piece!

You can also find more information here: 250226 – FLYER – Crawford 2025 JournalismAward

Contact: Cathy Reade, Director of Outreach, The Crawford Fund, at cathy.reade@crawfordfund.org or 0413 575 934 and Carolyn Martin, ACAJ representative, at carolyn.martin@uq.edu.au or 0439 399 886.

Web: www.crawfordfund.org