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2008
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CGIAR's Science Awards |
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Jose Crossa, a senior scientist with CIMMYT, won the "Science Award for
Outstanding Scientist" for his work in germplasm management and regeneration. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Communications and Journalism |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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CGIAR King Baudouin Award |
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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. |
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2006
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Communications and Journalism |
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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. |
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CGIAR King Baudouin Award |
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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. |
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2005
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CGIAR's Science Awards |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Communications and Journalism |
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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. |
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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. |
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2003
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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. |
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Promising Young Scientist is Jonathan Crouch, the Global Theme Leader for Biotechnology at the International Center for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Communications and Journalism |
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The Outstanding Journalism award went to Indian journalist Pallava Bagla. |
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The Outstanding Communications award went to M.J. Williams at the WorldFish Center for the Fish for All Campaign |
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CGIAR Chairman's Excellence in Science Awards |
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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. |
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CGIAR King Baudouin Award |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1998
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Japanese Third Order of the Rising Sun is awarded to Shozo Watanabe (ILRI Board Member) |
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* This list represents a sample of major awards received by CGIAR scientists. It is not intended to be a complete list.
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