United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation Champion Award 2025 ($50,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Applications are open for the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation Champion Award 2025. The Champion Award is FAO’s highest honour. It recognises excellent leaders from governments, civil society and the non-public sector whose actions have a transformative affect in direction of elevated meals safety and attaining the 2030 Agenda, ensuring that folks have common entry to sufficient excessive-high quality meals to guide lively, wholesome lives.

The Award is conferred for actions and programmes with exceptional achievements throughout the biennium previous the present one. The Award can be offered by the Director-General to the person or consultant of the recipient establishment throughout a particular ceremony throughout the forty fourth Session of the FAO Conference from June 28 – July 4, 2025.

The particular person or consultant of the chosen establishment can be invited to FAO Headquarters in Rome for the ceremony, the price of journey being borne by the Organization.

Award

• The Award, which features a money prize of $50,000, can be offered by the FAO Director-General to the profitable particular person or consultant of the recipient establishment at a particular ceremony throughout the FAO Conference from June 28 to July 4, 2025.

Eligibility

The profitable particular person or establishment ought to display how they: 

• made a major and excellent contribution in direction of advancing the general targets of the Organization, together with the achievement of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals;
• developed analyses that assist the transformation to extra environment friendly, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood programs and efficiently advocated for constant measures which were adopted and utilized, on a big scale, by governments, civil society organizations and/or non-public enterprises, by way of programmes aimed guaranteeing a sustainable and meals-safe world for all, and/or;
• applied massive-scale programmes for eliminating poverty, ending starvation and all types of malnutrition, and decreasing inequalities, which have demonstrated a sustainable affect and alignment with the 2030 Agenda. 

Application

Please be aware: the textual content of the detailed nomination ought to be self-contained and will present concrete parts and data.

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For extra data, go to UN FAO Champion Award.