Call For Applications: Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards 2025 (Up to $125,000 Cash Award)
The Arrell Global Food Innovation Award recognizes global excellence in the broad area of food innovation and community impact. In 2025, one award will be given:
- Community Impact: This award will recognize an individual, or group of individuals, who has contributed to improved nutritional health and/or food security, with a focus on strengthening disadvantaged communities.
Likely themes include: food sovereignty, food production, food distribution/access, food insecurity, community development and governance, household nutrition, urban poverty, traditional food systems, socioeconomic policy, empowerment of under-served communities food and nutrition literacy.
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Eligibility
- Citizens of any country are eligible for nomination, with no restrictions on gender, race, religion, creed or residency.
- Nominations may come from private companies, academic institutions, governmental units, charitable foundations, and not-for-profit organisations. In the case of multiple nominations from a single organization, only the one with the latest date will be accepted.
Prize
The Arrell Global Food Innovation Award comes with the following terms:
- The prize will be worth $125,000 CAD comprising a $100,000 cash award for the use of the recipient and up to $25,000 for travel and accommodation of the recipient, administered by the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph.
- An award citation and a commemorative item will also be presented.
- The recipient is expected to participate in a program of events. In particular, the award recipient may be asked to attend the next Arrell Food Summit and other engagements.
Nomination
Academic institutions, governmental units or private / public organizations may submit a nomination for the Arrell Global Food Innovation Award. Each organization may submit one application for the award.
All documents must be submitted by 12:00 p.m. ET on April 24, 2025 in Adobe (.pdf) format to [email protected] and this is also the address for any inquiries.
Deadline: April 24, 2025