Now is the time to nominate someone worthy of the $10,000 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application.
Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the award recognizes exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under 40 who has demonstrated intellectual courage, stamina, and determination in the fight to eliminate global hunger and poverty.
The award honors someone who is working closely and directly in the field or at the production or processing level with farmers, animal herders, fishers or others in rural communities, in any discipline or enterprise across the entire food production, processing, and distribution chain.
Nominations will be taken through June 30, and the winner will be announced at the World Food Prize events in October.
Candidates will be evaluated and selected based on the attributes and accomplishments that reflect those demonstrated by Borlaug during his work in field research and application, which include: persistence, innovation, communication, research/science, extension, education, application, leadership and impact.
In 2015, Eric Pohlman, Rwanda Country Director and Senior Partner at One Acre Fund, received the Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application for developing highly innovative programs that are transforming subsistence agriculture in rural Rwanda. Pohlman’s collaborative work with farmers has made it possible for smallholders to improve their agricultural methods and livelihoods, and escape hunger and poverty. Read the full biographies of the award recipients at www.worldfoodprize.org/borlaugawardee.
Please click on this link to learn more and to nominate a deserving individual. Questions may be directed to Judith Pim, the director of Secretariat Operations at jpim@worldfoodprize.org.