Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) Award for Innovation 2027 ($10,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: December 31, 2026

Applications are open for the UN FAO Award for Innovation 2027. At its Forty-second session, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Conference determined to determine a “FAO Award for Innovation” to recognise floor-breaking innovation in areas below FAO’s mandate, open to a broad spectrum of awardees together with Members and non-state companions.

Agricultural innovation is the course of whereby people or organizations deliver new or current merchandise, processes or methods of group into use for the first time in a selected context in an effort to enhance effectiveness, competitiveness, resilience to shocks or environmental sustainability and thereby contribute to meals safety and vitamin, financial improvement or sustainable pure useful resource administration. 

Innovation consists of doing one thing new and completely different, whether or not fixing an previous downside in a brand new means, addressing a brand new downside with a confirmed answer, or bringing a brand new answer to a brand new downside. 

Award

• Award features a scroll describing the recipient’s achievements and/or award,
• A money prize of USD $10,000

Eligibility

• The FAO Award for Innovation will probably be conferred for floor-breaking innovation in areas below FAO’s mandate to a broad spectrum of awardees, together with Members, establishments, people, worldwide/regional organizations, tutorial or analysis entities, civil society organizations personal sector entities.
• The Award will recognise, however not be restricted to, all kinds of improvements in agrifood programs, technological (together with digital and biotechnological improvements) in addition to social, monetary, coverage, and institutional improvements. It may even cowl sustainable manufacturing practices resembling agroecology, new approaches, new enterprise fashions, and so forth.
• The improvements might fall below numerous classes together with technological, institutional, social, coverage, and monetary improvements.

Criteria

Award particular standards

• Demonstrate impression on a couple of degree of the provide chain, from small-scale agricultural producers (e.g. farmers, herders, fishers) to shoppers.
• Strengthen the hyperlink between small-scale producers and shoppers by way of progressive mechanisms resembling progressive institutional preparations, coverage and monetary mechanisms, social processes, progressive technological options together with digital instruments, innovation hubs, platforms connecting producers and shoppers, progressive methods of entry to markets and shoppers and so forth.,) with due consideration to environmental, financial and social dimensions of sustainability.

General Criteria

• Quality and benefit of the innovation
• Potential profit, impression and sustainability
• Accessibility and affordability of the innovation
• Scalability
• Value for cash
• Role of youth (below 35), and/or girls, and/or marginalized teams

Application

Note:

• The textual content of the detailed nomination needs to be self-contained and ought to present concrete parts and data.
• The nomination may be submitted electronically at the kind or despatched through mail at [email protected]

For extra data, go to UN FAO Award for Innovation.