Recently, the website Farmsubsidy.org was honoured by Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Inc with the 2006 IRE Award for investigative reporting. The work of the website’s three founders, journalists Jack Thurston, Brigitte Alfter, and Nils Mulvad, has been groundbreaking in disclosing farm subsidies in Europe through the website and its database. The website uses national freedom of information laws to push European governments to release detailed data on the distribution of Europe's € 48.5 billion annual farm subsidy payments.

Farmsubsidy.org served as a useful resource for TI’s Transparency Through Awareness (TTA) project, which in 2005 and 2006, contributed to the effective and transparent use of EU funds for new member states through increasing public and civil society understanding of their purpose, distribution and use. TI coordinated the implementation of the TTA project with National Chapters and contact groups in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia.