Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application 2025 ($10,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 15, 2025

Nominations are open for the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application 2025. The Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by The Rockefeller Foundation, might be offered each October in Des Moines, Iowa, by the World Food Prize Foundation. This award will acknowledge distinctive, science-primarily based achievement in worldwide agriculture and meals manufacturing by a person beneath 40 who has clearly demonstrated mental braveness, stamina, and dedication within the struggle to get rid of world starvation and poverty.

The award will honor a person who’s working intently and instantly “in the field” or on the manufacturing or processing degree with farmers, animal herders, fishers or others in rural communities, in any self-discipline or enterprise throughout the whole meals manufacturing, processing, and distribution chain.

Award

• A $10,000 prize is awarded to the winner.

Eligibility

• Nominees have to be beneath the age of 40 (fortieth birthday not reached earlier than World Food Day, October 16, of the yr by which the award is offered).
• Nominees have to be actively working within the self-discipline, analysis space, place, or on the challenge(s) for which they’re being acknowledged. They could also be related to a public or personal instructional, analysis or improvement group or associated entity.
• Nominees stay eligible for consideration past the yr of their nomination, on the discretion of the Award Jury, so long as the award standards and age requirement are met.
• The award is meant to be offered to at least one individual. In uncommon and uncommon circumstances, one other individual might share the award for pronounced collaborative efforts and achievement.

Criteria

Candidates might be evaluated and chosen primarily based on the attributes and accomplishments that replicate these demonstrated by Dr. Borlaug throughout his work in discipline analysis and application, which embody:

• Persistence. Exhibiting Dr. Borlaug’s “never give up” perspective, even within the face of adversity, troublesome circumstances, limitation of sources, and/or critique from colleagues.
• Innovation. Applying Dr. Borlaug’s credo “reach for the stars” in pursuing progressive pathways, strategies, and options in a quest to supply enough meals and vitamin for the world’s folks.
• Communication. Emulating Dr. Borlaug’s instance of understanding native cultures; working successfully in cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary conditions; figuring out the wants and property of individuals in a given group or area; and connecting with a various array of stakeholders.
• Research/Science. Facilitating optimistic change via rigorous analysis strategies, strategies, administration approaches, and/or methods that end in elevated meals manufacturing, availability, distribution, and/or higher vitamin.
• Extension. Extending progressive discoveries and applied sciences in plant science, animal science, and/or meals science to underserved farmers and shoppers.
• Education. Providing arms-on science coaching and training to stakeholders in rural communities, together with farm households and agricultural and meals manufacturing staff.
• Application. Applying improved applied sciences and/or administration techniques to crops and/or animal agriculture for sustainable manufacturing, extra nutritious meals, and a discount of poverty.
• Leadership. Demonstrating management of different agricultural professionals, discipline researchers, and/or practitioners working in collaborative applications geared toward decreasing starvation and poverty and revitalizing communities.
• Impact. Increasing the quantity of meals out there via the entire above.  Dr. Borlaug was at all times about making a difference and “putting more food on the plate.”

Nomination

Required Nomination Documentation:

• A concise assertion (3000-phrase restrict) explaining and describing:
  • the nominee’s work and accomplishments, with particulars and examples that illustrate a number of of the factors specified for this award;
  • how, in doing this work, the nominee displays the attributes demonstrated by Dr. Borlaug throughout his early profession; and
  • the affect or outcomes of the nominee’s work.
• Nominee’s Curriculum Vitae or resume, together with date of beginning, nation of origin, training, and skilled background.
• One (1) nomination letter and two (2) letters of assist describing, explaining and emphasizing the primary achievements of the nominee have to be supplied with the nomination. Due to the excessive quantity of nominations, please don’t submit greater than two assist letters.
• Photos: A head shot of the nominee is required (minimal 300 dpi decision); 2 further motion photographs of the nominee at work might also be submitted.

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For extra data, go to Norman Borlaug Award.