Al-Sumait Prize in Food Security 2025 ($1,000,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Nominations are open for the Al-Sumait Prize in Food Security 2025. Kuwait’s annual Al-Sumait Prize honors people or establishments who’ve, by means of their work or analysis, made important advances in the fields of meals safety, well being, and training in Africa. An initiative of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the late Amir of the State of Kuwait, its objective is to shine a light-weight on these making a optimistic difference to sustainable growth in Africa.

Sponsored by the Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs on behalf of the State of Kuwait and managed by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS), the awards rejoice the work and accomplishments of Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Sumait, a Kuwaiti doctor who spent his lifetime serving to the poor in Africa in the fields of well being and training. Administered by KFAS and a Board of Trustees, the target of the prizes is to acknowledge the perfect research, scientific initiatives, utilized analysis, and revolutionary initiatives which have a big impression and lasting affect on advancing progress in the direction of financial and social growth in Africa.

Focus Areas

The Prize is to be awarded to people or establishments who by means of their analysis initiatives or initiatives have made important development inside a number of of the next areas (or different associated fields):

• Developing new seed, crop, or livestock varieties to boost meals safety and diet in Africa.
• Increasing the shelf life, caloric, and dietary worth of regionally produced and consumed meals.
• Improving smallholder farmers’ entry to agricultural inputs, strategies, applied sciences, and markets to make sure the provision of nutritious meals for susceptible communities.
• Enhancing farmers’ resilience to local weather change and excessive climate variability to safe sustainable meals manufacturing and diet.
• Reducing meals waste and meals loss throughout Africa’s agrifood programs.
• Advancing different agrifood programs to extend productiveness whereas lowering water footprints, particularly in marginal environments.
• Promoting the adoption of recent enterprise methods, digitalization, and advertising in the sphere of meals safety and diet.
• Implementing revolutionary and sustainable options to fight meals insecurity and malnutrition.
• Addressing gender equality and ladies’s empowerment in reaching meals safety.
• Developing methods to enhance agricultural livelihoods, meals safety, and diet throughout pandemics.

Prize

• The prize is awarded yearly and has a worth of $1,000,000 (One million US {dollars}).

Eligibility

• The nominated candidates’ analysis and growth work or initiatives and initiatives should be revolutionary and have achieved excessive-impression in the African continent.
• The submitted work should be of paramount significance in selling important financial, social, human sources and infrastructure growth throughout the introduced subject of the prize.
• The submitted analysis work of a nominated candidate must be composed of research and utilized analysis, printed in peer-reviewed scientific journals and acknowledged at a world stage throughout the introduced subject. The analysis outcomes must have been utilized after publication in African nations throughout the previous ten years. Adequate supporting proof must be offered.
• Nominations are accepted from competent regional and worldwide establishments and scientific centres (universities, institutes and centres of scientific analysis) in addition to from UN organizations, former winners in the sphere of the prize, or former analysis members.
• All submissions should be submitted in English. If the work is carried out is in one other language, a complete abstract of the nominated work in English should be submitted.

Nomination

The nomination kind and submitted works should be obtained earlier than June 30, 2025.

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For extra data, go to Al-Sumait Prize in Food Security.