São Paulo – The Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA) won the Prêmio Mapa de Jornalismo 2010 (2010 Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply Journalism Award) in the Internet category. The article chosen was “A new diet for the crops”, by journalist Isaura Daniel. The article reports Brazilian initiatives for production of organic and organomineral fertilizers to guarantee the supply to national agriculture and to face the rising prices of the chemical product.
The Ministry of Agriculture chose three articles in each category. ANBA won the first place in the Internet category. The second place went to journalist Margareth dos Santos e Santos, of site Dia de Campo, for article “Tomatec, the ecologically grown tomato”, and the third was Roberto Pereira Samora, from the Reuters agency, for “The saga of CO2 sequestration in the Savanna and generating profit”. Almost 200 journalists from all over Brazil competed. Awards were also granted for TV, Radio and Print.
In the Print category, the article that won was “Preservation brings money to farmers from three cities”, by journalist Bettina Maria de Barros, from newspaper Valor Econômico. In television, the Ministry of Agriculture chose Marcelo Moreira Ramiro, for article “Irrigated rice in the Pantanal”, on Morena TV, and in radio journalism, the article chosen was “Bioenergy: an intelligent solution” by Joice Cristina Hasselman, from radio station Band News.
This is the tenth journalism award won by ANBA in little over six years. It is also the sixth award that journalist Isaura Daniel wins for the agency, two of which were in partnership with other journalists. ANBA has already won the Massey Ferguson Journalism Award for three years running, the National Confederation of Transport (CNT) award twice as well as the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), National Association of Railway Transport (ANTF), National Coffee Council (CNC) and the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (Abimaq) awards.
ANBA is the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce news agency and was established by Agência Meios in 2003, at the request of the organisation. The articles are published with the objective of generating a greater flow of information between Brazil and the Arab world and, thus, also greater commercial and cultural ties. ANBA has versions in Portuguese and English and receives over 500,000 individual visits from Brazil and abroad each month. The organisation works in partnership with eight news agencies in Brazil and in the Arab countries.
*Translated by Mark Ament
