Agostino Petroni is an independent Italian journalist based in Rome.

His work appears in publications such as National Geographic, BBC, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. For his work on a deadly disease that is killing southern Italian olive groves, he won the 2022 Collier Journalism Award, which recognizes works on forest or conservation history.

Agostino Petroni is an MA-Politics graduate from Columbia Journalism School and a Pulitzer Center grantee. An economist and a gastronome, Petroni published "Memoria Nueva–Stories of Guardians of the Earth" and produced "Heartwood," a documentary about the gastronomic resilience of three Latin-American Indigenous communities. Petroni has reported in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.

Agostino Petroni

Basic information

Name
Agostino Petroni
Title
Journalist
Expertise
marine environmental issues
Country
Italy
City
Roma
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Supported projects

Plant Pandemics Enter Through Open European Borders

  • Agriculture
  • Economy
  • Environment

PUGLIA / AMSTERDAM – With climate change, diseases that previously wouldn't thrive in Europe have a greater chance of survival, making the peril for agriculture greater than ever. A system with very open borders for plant imports is threatening agriculture in the southern part of the European Union.

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Fishy Seafood: How Russia Avoids Sanctions

VLADIVOSTOK / BUSAN – After Russia attacked Ukraine, the West acted swiftly. Within months, the Western alliance imposed hard-hitting sanctions against the Eastern giant. However, these sanctions did not affect most Russian fishing industries, which kept exporting 1.1 billion USD of seafood into Europe

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The Lives of Italy’s Rose Sellers Are Anything but Romantic

  • Agriculture
  • Exploitation
  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Trafficking

ROME / DHAKA - Of the many cases chronicling the exploitation of South Asian migrant workers in Italy, none is perhaps more visible yet underreported than the plight of rose sellers – a common sight in busy tourist destinations like Rome, Milan or Turin.

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Pelagic fishes know no national borders

  • Environment
  • Fishing industry

According to a 1980 international UN law, the Northeastern Atlantic countries must meet regularly to agree on a fishing quota for each country––so that everybody gets a fair share and fish stocks don't get overfished. The multilateral agreements are supposed to ensure that no government exploits the moving fish resource within their borders.

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