Deadline- 3 May 2013
Nominations are invited from around the the world for 2013 Yara Prize for a Green Revolution in Africa. The goal of this prize is to contribute to the transformation of African agriculture and food and nutrition security, within a sustainable context, thereby helping to reduce hunger and poverty. Yara prize mainly focuses on young women and men who are making a particular effort within agriculture paying particular attention to innovation and entrepreneurship.
Thematic areas-
- Food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture-
- Food production and availability
- Creation of agricultural value chains and local markets
- Sustainable intensification in the smallholder sector
- Human nutrition
- National policies and politics to enhance awareness of the importance of agricultural inputs and promote sustainable food production methods
- Soil and water management
- Transformative change
- Well-proven leadership
- African owned and led
- Sustainability of the initiative
- Initiatives moving to scale or with potential to move to scale
Eligibility & Criteria-
- The Yara Prize can be awarded to any individual or identifiable group of individuals, as well as to established institutions, associations, organizations or government bodies with a formal and recognized judicial and organizational structure contributing to the overall objectives of the Prize.
- The Prize can be awarded to any qualified candidate, irrespective of nationality, profession or location, whose work, and contributions deriving from the work, has had a clear impact on the African situation, nationally, regionally or for the continent.
- The Prize can be awarded with reference to a specific contribution or achievement, or a series of efforts and results; recently or in the past, or over a period of time – judged as viable and in accordance with acknowledged principles of sustainability.
- Current or recent members of the Yara Prize Committee, or an institution/organization headed by such a member, are ineligible for the Prize. The Prize cannot be awarded to a person already deceased, but will be presented in the event a Prize winner dies before receiving the Prize.
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