Increasing sustainable food production is crucial to nourish the more than 820 million people who regularly go to bed hungry, 到2050年,世界人口将增加20亿. The Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security aims to support scientific research that can deliver transformational impacts within global agriculture.
与Agropolis基金会合作颁发, the Prize recognises an innovative scientific research project for its potential impact on the availability, accessibility, 食物的可负担性和充足性, 符合联合国可持续发展目标#2:消除饥饿. Winners receive a US$75,000 grant for scaling up their proven research.
The 2021 Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security has been awarded to a research team that’s developed a highly effective botanical rodenticide poised for rollout to help curb rats and reduce crop loss in Africa. 该研究小组由Luwieke Bosma领导, 来自MetaMeta Research, Wageningen, 在荷兰, and Dr. Meheretu Yonas来自埃塞俄比亚的Mekelle大学.
入围项目最能体现创新的前景, 参与的好处, 以及潜在的大规模影响.
While each of the 2021 entrants exhibited novel solutions to problems new and chronic, the finalists stood out because their projects were judged particularly deserving of continued development and support.
Innovation Mapping for Food Security (IM4FS) – co-led by Dr Tomaso Ceccarelli of Wageningen University Research and Dr Elias Eyasu Fantahun of Addis Ababa University – recommends “best-fit” combinations of crops, farming practices and environmental and socio-economic conditions to optimise smallholder yields of staple crops in food insecure areas.
大规模应用, it has the potential to transform productivity in countries like Ethiopia, 受粮食不安全影响.
The 2017 Prize went to Durum wheat breeder Dr Filippo Bassi of ICARDA for his development of a strain of heat-tolerant wheat, 能够承受撒哈拉以南非洲40°C的高温.
自收到奖金以来, the new varieties have been well established in Senegal and Mauritania, 并在贝宁首次成功种植, Togo, Ivory Coast, 加纳和冈比亚共和国.
Female farmers along the Senegal River have been trained to become village-based seed enterprises. They have produced 100 tonnes of seeds to date with the goal of reaching 1,到2022年将达到000吨, 在政府的持续支持下. You can also 在《推荐买球平台》上宣读了他对缔约方会议第23届委员会的请求.
2015年的首届奖项被授予了一位 research team based at Cornell University who are revolutionising the way rice is grown. Read 与2015年推荐买球平台奖得主厄普霍夫教授的对话.