A freelancer, Kofi Ahovi, has been adjudged the best in agribusiness reporting at the just ended 2018 IFEJ Flamingo Awards in Accra.
He, in his story "Addressing Climate Change through Clean Cooking", sets out to project issues bordering on climate change, internationally and locally, and particularly the need to curb actions eroding reforms and progress made to address climate change.
The focus of his article is the use of clean cooking technologies, such as improved cook stoves and the potential of using these improved cook stoves to greatly reduce tree felling for firewood and emissions into the atmosphere. The article also spelt out the likely employment opportunities from clean cooking technologies.
Reading the award citation, Felix Klutse a member of the Jury, said "The subject is original, self-generated and of interest for both public understanding and policy".
He also added that the language used in the article enhanced readability, while the reportage met the required journalistic standards.
Kofi Ahovi started media work in 2005 with the Ghanaian voice, did his Internship at choice fm, Accra and later became the News Editor at Business Week newspaper from 2007 to 2015. He now work with trans media network as a communication executive and a freelancer, something which never dies in him.
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