Africa Food Prize 2023

The Africa Food Prize is the preeminent award recognizing an outstanding individual or institution that is leading the effort to change the reality of farming in Africa-from a struggle to survive a business that thrives.

The US $100,000 prize celebrates Africans who are taking control of Africa’s agriculture agenda. It pits a spotlight on bold initiatives and technical innovations that can be replicated across the continent to create a new food security and economic opportunity for all Africans.

The Africa Food Prize began as the Yara Prize, and was established in 2005 by Yara International ASA in Norway to honor achievements in African agriculture. The Yara Prize recognized individuals from Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique for their success in making agricultural farms more productive, profitable and resilient.

Moving the Yara Prize to Africa in 2016 and rechristening it to the Africa Food gave the award a distinctive African home, African identity and African ownership.

Objectives

• To recognize 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.

Selection Criteria   

• Contribution to reducing poverty and hunger and/or improving food and nutrition security in measurable terms.
• Contribution to providing a vital source of income and/or employment in measurable terms.
• Potential for transformative change through scalability, replication and sustainability.
• Increased awareness and cooperation among African audiences and organizations