Call For Nomination: Africa Food Prize 2025 ($100k Cash Prizes)

The Africa Food Prize recognizes extraordinary women, men, and institutions whose outstanding contributions to African agriculture are forging a new era of sustainable food security and economic opportunity that elevates all Africans.

The Africa Food Prize builds on the ideals and principles set forth by the Yara Prize by highlighting accomplishments and innovations with transformative potential that can be expanded and replicated throughout the continent to end poverty and hunger and offer a crucial new source of income and employment.

Key Benefits

• The prize includes $100,000 cash, a diploma and a trophy. The Prize can be awarded to more than one winner, but not more than two. If shared, each winner will receive equal prize money (USD $100,000 divided in two), a diploma and a trophy.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Africa Food 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 in the recent past, preferably within the last few years.
• Current or recent members of the Africa Food 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.

Selection Criteria

The Prize Committee considers the following criteria for the Prize:

• Contribution to reducing poverty and hunger and/or improving food and nutrition security in measurable terms
• Contribution to providing a vital source of income and/or employment in measurable terms
• Potential for transformative change through scalability, replication, and sustainability
• Increased awareness and cooperation among African audiences and organizations

Application Deadline: June 27, 2025

Apply now or this year’s Africa Food Prize Program

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