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2019 | Hale Ann TufanTurkey Hale Ann Tufan, Principal Investigator of the Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) project, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. She is recognized for championing the incorporation of gender-supportive activities... more |
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2018 | Matthew RouseUnited States Matthew Rouse, a plant pathologist at the Cereal Disease Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), has been named the 2018 recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. He is recognized for his essential leadership efforts to contain and reduce the impact of Ug99... more |
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2017 | Dr. Zhenling CuiChina Zhenling Cui, a researcher and faculty member at the Center for Resources, Environment and Food Security at the China Agricultural University in Beijing, has been named the 2017 recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. He is recognized for his scientific and extension work in improving soil health and increasing crop production through the implementation of innovative on-farm fertilizer management strategies... more |
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2016 | Andrew MudeKenya Andrew Mude, a senior economist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya, was named the 2016 recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. The announcement of his selection was made by Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation, at ILRI on August 30... more |
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2015 | Eric PohlmanRwanda Eric Pohlman, who currently serves as Rwanda Country Director and Senior Partner at the social enterprise One Acre Fund, was named the 2015 recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. The announcement of his selection was made by Rockefeller Managing Director for Africa, Dr. Mamadou Biteye, at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Lusaka, Zambia on September 29, 2015... more |
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2014 | Bram GovaertsBelgium Bram Govaerts currently serves as Associate Director of the Global Conservation Agricultural Program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). The announcement of his selection was made by World Food Prize President Ambassador Kenneth Quinn at the USAID Frontiers in Development Forum on September 18 in Washington, D.C... more |
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2013 | Charity Kawira MutegiKenya Charity Kawira Mutegi, who currently serves as the 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), was named the 2013 recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation... more |
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2012 | Aditi MukherjiIndia Aditi Mukherji, a young Indian social scientist, was selected as the first recipient of The Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. 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 Bengal... more |