The World Food Prize Foundation

2012-2019 Recipients

2019 | Hale Ann Tufan

Turkey

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

2018 | Matthew Rouse

United 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

 

2017 | Dr. Zhenling Cui

China

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

2016 | Andrew Mude

Kenya

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

2015 | Eric Pohlman

Rwanda

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

2014 | Bram Govaerts

Belgium

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

2013 | Charity Kawira Mutegi

Kenya

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

2012 | Aditi Mukherji

India

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

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