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2008
 
 
CGIAR's Science Awards
Jose Crossa, a senior scientist with CIMMYT, won the "Science Award for Outstanding Scientist" for his work in germplasm management and regeneration.
Eva Schiffer, from IFPRI, won the "Science Award for Promising Young Scientist" for her work on "Net-Map", a low tech, low cost participatory methodology for gathering and understanding social network data.
The "Award for Outstanding Agricultural Technology in the Sub-Saharan Region" was given to the Lateef Oladimeji Sanni for his innovative drying technologies for cassava food products in Nigeria.
The "Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" went to ROCARIZ, the West and Central Africa Rice Research and Development Network for its unconventional partnership to deliver rice based technologies in Africa.
Pictured left to right: Lawrence Narteh ROCARIZ Network Coordinator, Hon. Aiuba Cuereneia, Minister of Planning and Development, Mozambique, , Mamadou M'bary Coulibaly ROCARIZ Chair, Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair and Alexander Muller, FAO Assistant Director General.
INGER, the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of Rice, led by Edilberto Redona from IRRI, received the" Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Support Team" for their work in being able to get the best varieties of rice from one country to grow in other countries.
Pictured left to right: Edilberto Redona, IRRI, and Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair.
Jan Low (CIP) and her team won the "Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Article" for their article "A Food-Based Approach Introducing Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes Increased Vitamin A Intake and Serum Retinol Concentrations in Young Children in Rural Mozambique" published in The Journal of Nutrition, May 2007.
  Communications and Journalism
Sonii David from IITA received the Outstanding Communications award for the Sustainable Tree Crops Program "Videos by farmers for farmers: Enhancing cocoa
production in Ghana".
Pictured left to right: Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair, Paula Bramel, IITA and Andrew Bennett, CIFOR Board Chair.

The Award for Outsanding Journalism in Print Media went to Wandera Ojanji for his article "Endangered Species?", published in The Standard, Kenya, September 2, 2007.
Pictured left to right: Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair, Wandera Ojanji, Emile Frison CGIAR Alliance Executive Chair and Denis Kyetere, Chairperson of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa.

Outstanding Journalism in Broadcast Media award went to Patricia Oyella for her documentary "Saving the Cooking Banana", broadcast on WBS TV, Uganda.
Pictured left to right: Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair, Patricia Oyella, Emile Frison, CGIAR Alliance Executive Chair and Denis Kyetere, Chairperson of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa.

  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
The CGIAR King Baudouin Award 2008 went to the CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Production in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) for reviving the agricultural economies of newly emerged Central Asia and Caucasus countries.
Pictured left to right: Venancio Massingue, Minister of Science and Technology of Mozambique, Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair, Mahmoud Solh, Director General of ICARDA, Christopher Martius, CAC Program Facilitation Unit, Hukmatullo Ahmadov, CACAARI Chair and Ambassador Jan Mutton of Belgium.




2007
 
 
CGIAR's Science Awards
Darshan Brar, a senior scientist with IRRI, won the "Science Award for Outstanding Scientist" for his work in broadening the gene pool of cultivated rice.
Natalia Palacios, from CIMMYT, won the "Science Award for Promising Young Scientist" for her work in developing technologies for quick and inexpensive diagnosis of key nutritional traits in maize, enabling large-scale screening.
  The "Award for Outstanding Agricultural Technology in the Asia- Pacific Region" was given to the Joint Wheat Quality Team at the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science and CAAS for developing three high quality wheat cultivars.
  The "Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" went to the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium to Support Cassava Research and Development (CLAYUCA). One of the partnership's recent initiatives is the development of an alternative approach for producing ethanol from cassava.
The ReefBase team led by Jamie Oliver from WorldFish Center received the" Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Support Team" for their work in creating and maintaining the online ReefBase repository of information on the world's 10,000 coral reefs.
  Xu Kenong from the University of California at Davis and four IRRI scientists led by David Mackill won the "Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Article" for their article "Sub 1A is an ethylene response factor- like gene that confers submergence tolerance to rice" published in Nature Magazine in 2006.
  Communications and Journalism
Jiang Jianke, a senior writer from People's Daily received the "CAAS-CGIAR Award for Excellence in Journalism in China" for his dedication and achievements in reporting on agriculture research and technology in China.



2006
 
 
CGIAR's Science Awards
Ram P. Thakur, a plant pathologist with ICRISAT, won the "Science Award for Outstanding Scientist" for his work on managing major diseases in pearl millet and sorghum, key creal grain crops grown in arid regions. Click here for video.
Thomas Dubois, from IITA, won the "Science Award for Promising Young Scientist" for his work to improve bananas in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa, where the plant is often the chief contributor to household income. Click here for video.
Bir Bahadur Singh, a plant breeder at IITA, won the "Outstanding Senior Scientist Award" for his vast research on cowpea, inclding a fast-maturing '60-day' cowpea variety for the tropics and seeds with resistance to more than 10 diseases.
The "Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" went to CGIAR Genebank Community comprised of 11 CGIAR Centers who hold plant genetic resources in trust for the world community.
  The CG V-Library Team, received the "Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Support Team" for their work on the launch of the CGIAR Virtual Library.
  Teams from ILRI and the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) led by Malcolm Gardner won the "Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Article" for their paper "Genome Sequence of Theileria parva a Bovine Pathogen that Transforms Lymphocytes" published in Science Magazine.
  Communications and Journalism
Patrick Maundu, from Bioversity International, won the "Science Award for Outstanding Communications" for his campaign to promote consumption of micronutrient-rich leafy vegetables in supermarkets in Kenya, and increasing the sale of the green vegetables by 1100 percent in two years.
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
The CGIAR King Baudouin Award 2006 went to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) for an innovative, on-going series of maize breeding projects in Southern and Eastern Africa that have produced more than 50 new varieties planted on at least 1 million hectares. Click here for video.




2005
 
 
CGIAR's Science Awards
Ravi Singh, from CIMMYT, won the "Science Award for Outstanding Scientist" for developing "slow rusting" wheat varieties with improved resistance to an array of diseases such as leaf rust, yellow rust, powdery mildew, and spot blotch, among others.
Simon Paul Graham, from ILRI, won the "Science Award for Promising Young Scientist" for seminal research leading to the development of a novel, sensitive, and robust immunological assay that screens target parasite molecules causing East Coast Fever (ECF), a debilitating bovine disease that is the bane of pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Moatasim Sidahmed, from the American University of Beirut, won the "Regional Award for Outstanding Agricultural Technology" for developing a cutter-and-feeder mechanism that allows mechanical harvesting of lentils, a drought-resistant crop rich in proteins that is grown widely in the Central, West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region. The equipment allows lentil harvesting with wide ranging moisture content (14 to 29 percent).
The "Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" went to the "Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB) Program" for developing more environment-friendly farming techniques and slowing deforestation. Coordinated by the Kenya-based World Agroforestry Centre, the ASB program is a global partnership of over 80 institutions, conducting research in 12 tropical forest biomes (or biologically diverse areas) in the Amazon, Congo basin, northern Thailand, and the islands of Mindanao in Philippines and Sumatra in Indonesia. Its efforts are directed toward curbing deforestation while ensuring that poor people benefit from nature's environmental services. Thomas Tomich, Global Coordinator of ASB received the award on behalf of the partnership.
Ilona Kononenko, received the "Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Support Team" on behalf of a team supporting the Program for Sustainable Agricultural Production in Central Asia and Caucasus (CAC) located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Shaobing Peng, from IRRI, and his co-authors won the "Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Article" for the research article "Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming" published in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2004.
  Communications and Journalism
  Patrick Maundu, from Bioversity International, won the "Science Award for Outstanding Communications" for his campaign to promote consumption of micronutrient-rich leafy vegetables in supermarkets in Kenya, and increasing the sale of the green vegetables by 1100 percent in two years.
Patricia Shanley, from CIFOR, won the "Science Award for Outstanding Communications" for her work co-editing, in conjunction with Gabriel Medina, the book or "Fruit Trees and Useful Plants in the Lives of Amazonians" (or Fruitiferas e Plantas Uteis na Vida Amazonica in Portuguese). The book is a joint publication of Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), Imazon (the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment) and CIFOR.




2004
 
 
CGIAR's Science Awards
P. Lava Kumar of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) received the Young Scientist Award for identifying the agent that causes sterility mosaic disease in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan)
Brian Perry, a veterinary epidemiologist who works at the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) received the Outstanding Scientist Award for innovative work on the dynamics and control of tick-borne diseases of livestock that has led to improved methods of controlling these diseases at both farm and national levels.
Outstanding Partnership Award to Community Based Fisheries Management, a partnership coordinated by WorldFish Center in Bangladesh that empowers communities by providing them knowledge so that they can make better-informed decisions on the sustainable use and management of the fisheries.
Outstanding Scientific Support Award to Christine Casal and the team at WorldFish Center who developed FishBase, an internationally recognized premier database and information system on the world's fishes.
Outstanding Scientific Article Award to Marta Vasconcelos (and eight authors) of the Philippine-based International Rice Research Institute for their article "Enhanced iron and zinc accumulation in transgenic rice with the ferritin gene" published in Plant Science.
  Communications and Journalism
Outstanding Journalism Award to Natasha Loder for her article "The Promise of a Blue Revolution" published in The Economist on August 9, 2003.
Outstanding Communications Award to Smallholder Dairy Project, jointly implemented by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenyan Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, and Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute for an innovative communication strategy that helped raise awareness among key policymakers about strategic and pro-poor issues in reforming East Africa's dairy sector.
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award 2008
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award to the Rice-Wheat Consortium of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (led by the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)) for combining their efforts in promoting conservation agriculture benefiting large numbers of farm families in the Indo-Gangetic plains of South Asia.




2003
 
 
CGIAR's Science Awards
Dr. Abdul Mujeeb Kazi at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) was named Outstanding Scientist for generating and making available new genetic diversity for wheat improvement.
Promising Young Scientist is Jonathan Crouch, the Global Theme Leader for Biotechnology at the International Center for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
The Outstanding Scientific Article award went to three researchers at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (ITTA), K. Cardwell, A. Hounsa, and S. Egal, along with Y.Y. Gong, P.C. Turner, and C.P. Wild of the University of Leeds, U.K., and A. J. Hall at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and to Oliver Hanotte, Joel W. Ochieng, Yasmin Verjee, and J. Edward O. Rege of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Daniel G. Bradley and Emmeline W. Hill of the Smurfit Institute at Trinity College in Ireland
  The Outstanding Partnership award recognized the Vitamin A for Africa program, coordinated by the International Potato Center (CIP) under its director-general, Hubert Zandstra, for its work with 44 local and international development organizations implementing the program in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda
The Genetic Resources Center Support Team of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) received the Outstanding Scientific Support award for contributing to effective and efficient operation of IRRI's rice gene bank.
  Communications and Journalism
The Outstanding Journalism award went to Indian journalist Pallava Bagla.
  The Outstanding Communications award went to M.J. Williams at the WorldFish Center for the Fish for All Campaign




2002
 
 
CGIAR's Science Awards
  Outstanding Scientist: Tushaar Shah (IWMI);
Promising Young Scientist: Marilyn Louise Warburton (CIMMYT);
Outstanding Scientific Support Team: IRRI Team for Exploiting Biodiversity for Sustainable Pest Management;
Outstanding Partnership: Collection Action and Property Rights (CAPRI);
Outstanding Scientific Article: Jeffrey Sayer (WWF) and Bruce Campbell (CIFOR)
  Communications and Journalism
  Outstanding Journalism: Fred Pearce, freelance journalist
Outstanding Communications: Christopher Barr (CIFOR)
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award 2008
  ICRISAT and ICARDA received the King Baudouin Award of the CGIAR for developing new chickpea varieties with higher tolerance to drought and heat and better resistance to pests and diseases.
  Other Awards

Click here for a more complete list of awardees in 2002.

Dr. Pedro Sanchez, a leading soil scientist, and former director general of the Nairobi-based ICRAF-World Agroforestry Centre was conferred the 2002 World Food Prize on October 24, in Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. Sanchez was selected for his groundbreaking contributions to reducing hunger and malnutrition throughout the developing world by transforming depleted tropical soils into productive agricultural lands. Read more.




2001
 
 
CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards
  CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards are presented to:
Outstanding Scientist:
Hari C. Sharma (ICRISAT),
Promising Young Scientist: Alex Kahi (ILRI), CIAT: Outstanding Partnership for Sustainable Land Management of Acid Soil Savannas, IRRI: Outstanding Scientific Support Team for their work on IRRI's hybrid rice breeding program, IRRI: Outstanding Scientific Article: "Genetic Diversity and Disease Control in Rice
  Other Awards
Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen (IFPRI) wins the 2001 World Food Prize for his contributions to the improvement of agricultural research and food policy and to the raising of the status of the poor and hungry all over the world. Read more.




2000
 
 
CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards
CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards are presented to: Bernard Vanlauwe (IITA), Alberto Barrion (IRRI), Ellen Payongayong (IFPRI), S. Ceccarelli, et al, (ICARDA), and in partnership to CIMMYT, IRRI and NARS partners (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan) in the Rice-Wheat onsortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains.
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
  WARDA receives the CGIAR King Baudouin Award for developing "New Rice for Africa" (NERICA), high-yielding, disease resistant and drought tolerant upland rice varieties suitable to growing conditions in West and Central Africa.
  Other Awards
Dr. Evangelina Villegas (CIMMYT) and Dr. Surinder K. Vasal (CIMMYT) receive the Millenium World Food Prize for their lifetime's work to develop a higher-yielding, protein-rich corn that can help prevent malnutrition in millions of people.
  Nigeria's Order of the Officer of the Federal Republic is conferred to Francis Idachaba, ISNAR, in the Millennium National Honors List issued by the President of Nigeria.




1999
 
 
CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards
  CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards are presented to: Paul E. Ilona (IITA), Amos Omore (ILRI), James Legg (IITA), and David Bergvinson (CIMMYT)
  Other Awards
M.S. Swaminathan is acclaimed by "Time" Magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of this century. "Time" says that he used his skills and powers of persuasion to make famine an unfamilar word in Asia. In addition, he received the 1999 Volvo Envrionment Prize for his international leadership in agriculture and resource conservation.




1998
 
 
CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards
  CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards are presented to Keith Ballingall (ILRI), Kedar N. Rai (ICRISAT), Imad Eujayl (ICARDA) and in partnership to ICLARM, the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Institute of Aquaculture Research, Norway.
  Other Awards
  Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Director General of IFPRI, receives the Charles A. Black Award from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology. The award is given to a food or agricultural research scientist who makes significant scientific contributions in his or her field and communicates the importance of this work to the public, policymakers, and news media.
  Rajendra Singh Paroda (board member of ICRISAT) is awarded the Padma Bhushan for "distinguished and excellent service" in the field of Science and Engineering (Plant Breeding).
  Giro Orita (ICARDA) is awarded the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold and Silver Rays, the highest decoration in Japan for Japanese experts working overseas, by His Majesty Emperor of Japan Akihito. A Japanese veterinarian, Dr. Orita rendered outstanding service to animal health.
  Dharmawansa Senadhira (IRRI) is chosen as a laureate of the Fukui International Koshihikari Rice Prize given by the Fukui Prefecture of Japan for his contributions to improvements in rice production through plant breeding.
  Rebecca Nelson (CIP), a molecular plant pathologist, receives a MacArthur Fellowship, which is widely known as a "genius award," for both her research on infectious mechanisms of agricultural pathogens and her work in disseminating the research results to farmers in the developing world.
  Japanese Third Order of the Rising Sun is awarded to Shozo Watanabe (ILRI Board Member)




1997
 
 
CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards
  CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards are presented to Marianne Bänziger (CIMMYT), A.K. Singh (ICRISAT), Marco Rondón (CIAT) and, in partnership, to the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and ILRI.
  Other Awards
Jerry Vanclay (CIFOR) receives the Queen's Award for Forestry, given by the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, for his achievements in tropical forest research and management.
  Gurdev Khush (IRRI) is awarded the Dr. K. Ramiah Medal from the Indian National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his contributions to global rice science.
  John Ryan (ICARDA) receives the International Soil Science Award from the International Soil Society of America for his work in dryland areas.




1996
 
 
CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards
  The CGIAR establishes the first Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards. The first awards are presented to Shaobing Peng (IRRI), Thelma Paris (IRRI), Shashi Sharma (ICRISAT) and, in partnership, to IITA and the Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR).
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
  ICRISAT receives the King Baudouin Award of the CGIAR for its successful work on pearl millet improvement.
  Other Awards
  Henry M. Beachell and Gurdev S. Khush (IRRI) receive the World Food Prize for developing new rice strains that revolutionized Asian agriculture.
  Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Peter Doherty (former ILRAD Board Member)




1995
 
  Other Awards
Hans Herren (IITA) receives the World Food Prize for developing the Africa-wide Cassava Mealybug Control Program.




1994
 
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
  IITA receives the King Baudouin Award of the CGIAR for its pioneering research on breeding hybrid plantains resistant to black sigatoka and for advances made in the genetics of Musa
  Other Awards
  Donald Winkelmann (CIMMYT) receives the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest distinction given by the Mexican government to a foreigner, for his contributions to Mexico during his 29 years of work in the country.
  Fredson Chikafumbwa (ICLARM) receives the International Foundation for Science/King Baudouin Award for his work on integrated crop-fish resource recycling.




1993
 
  Other Awards
Carlos Ochoa (CIP) receives the Inter-American Science Prize from the Organization of American States for his life's work as a plant explorer, researcher, and educator.
  Pedro Sanchez (ICRAF) receives the International Service In Agronomy Award from the American Society of Agronomy and the International Soil Science Award from the Soil Science Society of America for his outstanding contributions to tropical soils research.




1992
 
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
  CIP receives the King Baudouin Award of the CGIAR for its research and development of effective integrated pest management practices and the creation of the "hairy potato".
  Other Awards
  Y.L. Nene (ICRISAT) receives the Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science and Technology for his contributions to agriculture.




1991
 
  Other Awards
John Niederhauser (CIP), receives the World Food Prize for his innovative leadership in advancing the production and consumption of the potato.
  The Ohyama Medical Research Prize from Japan is conferred to Hiroyuki and Kazu Hirumi (ILRAD/ILRI) for development of culture systems enabling laboratory scientists to grow trypanosome parasites thus creating a model for research on this livestock disease.




1990
 
  Other Awards
  Leslie Swindale (ICRISAT) receives the Padma Bhushan Award from the President of India for his work and his leadership of ICRISAT.




1989
 
  Other Awards
  Peter R. Jennings (Rockefeller Foundation field staff at IRRI and CIAT) receives the American Society of Agronomy Award for International Service in Agronomy.
  Rattan Lal (IITA), is awarded the International Soil Science Award from the Soil Science Society of America.




1988
 
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
  CIMMYT receives the King Baudouin Award of the CGIAR for its work on the Veery "S" bread wheats.
  Other Awards
Robert F. Chandler, Jr. (IRRI) receives the World Food Prize for his leadership in developing tropical rice varieties that doubled and tripled the yields beyond traditional varieties.
  Thomas Odhiambo (Technical Advisory Committee) receives the first Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger (sponsored by the U.S.-based Hunger Project).




1987
 
  Other Awards
Henry M. Beachell and Gurdev S. Khush (IRRI) ) receive the prestigious Japan Prize, the country's top scientific award, for their roles in developing semi-dwarf varieties that launched the Green Revolution in rice farming.
  M.S. Swaminathan (IRRI) receives the Golden Heart Presidential Award from Philippine President Corazon Aquino for strengthening IRRI's capacity to conduct upstream research.
  John Mellor (IFPRI) receives the U.S. Presidential End Hunger Award for his work on science and education policy issues.
  M.S. Swaminathan (IRRI) receives the World Food Prize for leading the introduction of high-yielding wheat and rice to Indian farmers.




1986
 
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
  IITA receives the King Baudouin Award of the CGIAR for its work to overcome maize streak virus, a major endemic disease affecting maize throughout Africa.
  Other Awards
  Amir U. Khan (IRRI) receives the International Inventors Award from Sweden's King Carl Gustav for developing the axial flow thresher, a machine that processes high-moisture paddy rice and reduces threshing losses.




1985
 
  Other Awards
M.S. Swaminathan (IRRI) receives the Association for Women in Development Award for his outstanding work in integrating women in the development process.




1984
 
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
  CIAT receives the King Baudouin Award of the CGIAR for its work on resistance to the Bean Golden Mosaic virus (BGMV)




1982
 
  CGIAR King Baudouin Award
  IRRI receives the King Baudouin Award of the CGIAR for its breeding program in the development of IR36, an early maturing, high yielding rice variety with a broad spectrum of resistance to biological stresses.




1980
 
  Other Awards
The CGIAR receives the King Baudouin International Development Prize for "its contribution to the qualitative and quantitative improvement of food production in the world." Subsequently, the CGIAR developed, in cooperation with the Belgian government, its own biennial King Baudouin Award to recognize achievements stemming from the work of CGIAR Centers. (Baudouin Awards)




1970
 
  Other Awards
Norman Borlaug (CIMMYT), whose work on dwarf varieties of grain helped achieve the Green Revolution, receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific breakthroughs.


* This list represents a sample of major awards received by CGIAR scientists. It is not intended to be a complete list.