World Food Prize Foundation Top Agri-Food Pioneers 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 25, 2025

The World Food Prize Foundation is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP)! Do you already know an agri-meals champion contributing to extra productive, nutritious and sustainable meals methods?

The TAP record options pioneers of any age, background or profession focus working in fields associated to meals or agriculture. Those chosen within the 2024 record comprised the primary cohort of TAP, and the 2025 recipients will construct on this community of trailblazers to facilitate co-studying and collaboration throughout meals methods. They may even be featured on the 2025 Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa. 

The TAP record options people of all ages, backgrounds, and profession fields who’re driving developments in agriculture, vitamin, sustainability, know-how and extra. This 12 months’s cohort will characteristic 39 distinctive innovators from all over the world in honor of the group’s thirty ninth anniversary. They even be acknowledged on the 2025 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 21-23, 2025.

Those chosen for the 2025 cohort will be part of a rising community of trailblazers devoted to fostering collaboration and innovation throughout meals methods. Last 12 months’s inaugural cohort featured pioneers from 20 nations, working in a variety of fields, from meals safety advocacy to seed innovation.

Eligibility

• Open to pioneers of any age, background or profession focus working in fields associated to meals or agriculture

Submissions will likely be assessed based mostly on the next standards.

• Innovation: pursues and applies creative, authentic or leading edge strategies, know-how and/or options to agri-meals points
• Impact: demonstrable impact on enhancing agri-meals methods or options to points regionally or globally
• Leadership: demonstrates management of others working in agri-meals in collaborative settings
• Collaboration: seeks out cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary involvement, connecting with a various array of stakeholders in agri-meals methods
• Persistence: reveals a “never give up” perspective, even within the face of adversity, tough circumstances, restricted assets or criticism

Nomination

In the expansive panorama of agri-meals innovation, it is very important acknowledge and rejoice the outstanding pioneers reshaping our world meals methods for the higher. The World Food Prize Foundation invites you to submit the identify of a trailblazer whose work has substantively impacted the productiveness, sustainability or inclusiveness of our meals methods. 

Click here to nominate a trailblazer.

For extra info, go to Top Agri-Food Pioneers.