Africa Food Prize Award 2021: Applications are now received for the New Agriculture and Food Security Prize known simply as the Africa Food Prize Award. The award seeks to recognize a extraordinary individual or institution whose contributions to African agriculture are forging a new era of sustainable food security and economic opportunities for Africans.
The USD 100,000 prize celebrates Africans who are taking control of Africa’s agriculture agenda and changing the reality of farming in Africa from a struggle to survive to a business that thrives. It puts a bright spotlight on bold initiatives and technical innovations that can be replicated across the continent.
Award Sponsor(s): AGRA, ECONET Wireless, CORTEVA and YARA
Award Worth: USD 100,000
Subject Eligibility: Agriculture and Food Security
Award Location: Africa
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Africa Food Prize Award 2021 | ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
To be eligible for the Africa Food Prize Award 2021:
- Interested individual or organization are to be nominated for the award. Self-nomination is not accepted.
- The Prize can be awarded with reference to a specific contribution or achievement or a series of efforts and results in the recent past, preferably within the last few years. Contributions or achievements must be related to agriculture and food security in Africa
- Individuals, groups or organizations interested in the Prize award must possess a formal and recognized judicial and organizational structure contributing to the overall objectives of the Prize.
- The individual or organization must demonstrate excellent leadership abilities specifically, the ability to preserve despite significant challenges or risks.
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Application Procedure
How-to-Nominate: Interested individuals or organizations are to be nominated for the Prize award by submitting a nomination in either French or English with relevant supporting documentations before the deadline.
Deadline: 25th May 2021
This opportunity is a salvation of agriculture in Benin, in the west African countries. We are very interested that, it can help us to face efficiently the climat changing and food precoces in Benin (+229)