{"id":28995,"date":"2025-04-24T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?p=28995"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:00:24","slug":"call-for-applications-africa-food-prize-2025-up-to-100000-cash-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/call-for-applications-africa-food-prize-2025-up-to-100000-cash-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Applications: Africa Food Prize 2025 (Up to $100,000 Cash prize)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building on the values and principles established by the Yara Prize, the Africa Food Prize puts a bright spotlight on achievements and innovations with transformative power that can be scaled and replicated across the continent to eliminate hunger and poverty and provide a vital new source of employment and income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prize<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Eligibility Criteria:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selection Criteria<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Contribution to reducing poverty and hunger and\/or improving food and nutrition security in measurable terms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contribution to providing a vital source of income and\/or employment in measurable terms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Potential for transformative change through scalability, replication, and sustainability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increased awareness and cooperation among African audiences and organizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deadline: <\/strong>June 27, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/africafoodprize.org\/about\/\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Food Prize recognizes extraordinary women, men, and institutions whose outstanding contributions to African agriculture are forging a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2500,59,205],"class_list":["post-28995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","tag-africa-food-prize","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-presspayng"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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