Category: Borlaug Field Award Ceremonies

Bram Govaerts Bram Govaerts, Associate Director of the Global Conservation Agricultural Program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), received the 2014 Norman Borlaug Field Award for Field Research and Application, Endowned by the Rockefeller Foundation. The announcement of his selection was made by World Food Prize President Ambassador Kenneth Quinn at the USAID…

Charity Kawira Mutegi Charity Kawira Mutegi, East Africa Aflasafe Coordinator for the Aflasafe Project for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), on assignment from the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), received the 2013 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. Charity Mutegi was recognized for her…

Aditi Mukherji Aditi Mukherji, an Indian social scientist, received the first Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2012. Mukherji was chosen to receive this award from a large number of nominees for her research on groundwater resources in agriculture which led to major policy changes benefiting thousands of farmers in West…