the Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security was launched in partnership with international scientific organisation, Agropolis Fondation.
Scientific innovation will be essential to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
The Olam Prize aims to advance knowledge and recognise innovation in
world food security, by rewarding an outstanding research project for
its potential impact on the availability, affordability, accessibility
or adequacy of food.
We
invite applications from research projects in plant science, soil
science, nutritional science, agricultural sciences or other field of
scientific research impacting food security, focused on any part of the
agricultural supply chain. The winning research project will receive
US$50,000 unrestricted funding to support its further development.
The Olam Prize is judged and awarded in conjunction with Agropolis Fondation’s
Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food,
which recognises individuals for their contribution to research,
development and capacity building to improve sustainability of food and
agricultural systems, food security and poverty reduction.
The Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security recognizes an innovative scientific research project for its potential impact on the
availability, affordability, accessibility or adequacy of food and the
UN's Sustainable Development Goal #2: End hunger, achieve food security
and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
The
winning research project will receive US$ 50,000. The Prize is open to
ground-breaking scientific research projects from academic or scientific
reseach instituions, civil societies and the private sector; and can
focus on any region, environment, crop or part of the supply chain.
Olam International is
a leading agri-business operating across the value chain in 70
countries. In 2016, Fortune recognized Olam among the Top 50 companies
in its "Change the World" list for its work with smallholder farmers.