Nominations open for Champion Award 2025

Award Information

• A cash prize of USD 50,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Any individual, national, regional or global institution that has, in the course of the biennium preceding the Conference, made a significant and outstanding contribution towards advancing the overall goals of the Organization, including the achievement of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
• The winning individual or institution should be one that has:
  • made a significant and effective contribution towards advancing the overall goals of the Organization, including the FAO Four Betters and overall, the achievement of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
  • developed analyses that support the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems and successfully advocated for consistent measures that have been adopted and applied, on a large scale, by governments, civil society organizations and/or private enterprises, through programmes aimed ensuring a sustainable and food-secure world for all.
  • implemented large-scale programmes for eliminating poverty, ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition, and reducing inequalities, that have demonstrated a sustainable impact and alignment with the 2030 Agenda.

Selection Criteria

• Proposals for nominations presented by national, regional or global institutions should be submitted to FAO Representatives (in countries with an accredited FAO Representative) or to FAO Regional and Sub regional Representatives (in countries with no accredited FAO Representative), as appropriate, for submission to the Awards Secretariat.
• The Award is conferred for activities and programme with remarkable achievements during the biennium preceding the current one. The Award will be presented by the Director-General to the individual or representative of the recipient institution during a special ceremony during the 169th Session of the FAO Council 13-17 June 2022.

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