In July 2024, Covering Climate Now recognized our Historias Sin Frontera multimedia project as a winner in the Food & Agriculture category of its annual climate journalism awards.
Covering Climate Now received 1,250 entries from journalists in dozens of countries. We are honored and thrilled that our project written by a team of environmental journalists in Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and Panama is among the winners!
Our congratulations to the talented and committed and journalists who spent several months researching and writing the stories. They are:
Johanna Osorio, Venezuela
María Clara Valencia, Colombia
Ruth Vargas, Bolivia
Sonia Tejada, Panama
InquireFirst awarded a reporting grant to these journalists during our day-long Historias Sin Fronteras (HSF) workshop at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Medellín in March 2023. After making a compelling pitch in a session attended by almost 50 Latin American science writers, their project was selected to receive a grant by HSF co-founders Iván Carrillo, who edited the project, and Lynne Walker, executive director of InquireFirst.
The 2024 panel of Covering Climate Now Award judges said:
“Arepas, pabéllon, bandeja paisa, and even rice itself: Many of Latin America’s staple foods, dishes that have defined culture for generations, are at risk due to extreme weather and declining crop yields. For Historias Sin Fronteras, journalists from across the region tell three interconnected stories that ask readers to contemplate climate change from the vantage points of their kitchen tables.
“Serving up intimate human stories with ample helpings of data and mouth-watering food photography, the stories impressively encapsulate many of the complex ties between climate change and agriculture and food. If more food writing dovetailed with climate reporting like this, we would all be better informed eaters.”