Geoffrey Kamadi

I am a freelance journalist, specializing in agriculture, environment, and climate change reporting. I have written for local newspapers and international publications, which include Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Guardian, Panos London, Ensia, the New Scientist, and Mongabay. My story has also appeared in the New Internationalist and CTA’s Spore Magazine and the New Agriculturist, which are agriculture magazines based in Europe among others

Journalism Grants:

I have won two journalism grants in my career as a journalist. The first one known as Journalistic Truth was awarded in December 2014 by Material Evidence, in Moscow, Russia. The grant was awarded to journalists to help them explore the price of conflict around the world, with a special focus on Iraq and Afghanistan. I was looking at the impact of terrorism in Kenya.

In my second grant, I collaborated with two journalists – one from The Netherlands and the other from Denmark - on an investigative journalism project late in 2015 through to 2016, under a programme known as Connecting Continents. This was a grant programme bringing together journalists in Europe with their counterparts in Africa to investigate a topic of national and international importance. It investigated the controversy surrounding land acquisition by the Lake Turkana Wind Power consortium, which is developing the largest wind power project in Africa. My stories from this project were published in Sweden and Africa. We are still writing stories from this project.
 

Journalism Awards:

I was awarded the Zimeo Excellence in Media Award on November 12, 2015 in Johannesburg, South Africa for a story I did for the African Business magazine. I emerged the winner in the Agriculture and Food Security category. My story was looking at a new trading system known as the Warehouse Receipt System that encouraged small-scale farmers to store their maize and other cereals in a certified warehouse and sell it later, so it can fetch better prices. The system has helped farmers improve production through good post-harvest handling, thereby boosting incomes and standards of life