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Deadline: April 30, 2019
Applications are open for the Al-Sumait Prize for African Development 2019. The prize is to be awarded to individuals or institutions who through their research projects or initiatives have made significant advancement to economic and social development in Africa.
The subject for the 2019 prize is Food Security. Research projects or initiatives must have made significant advancement within one or more of the following areas of Food Security on the African Continent:
- Developing new varieties of seeds, crops or livestock which can improve the food security of the poor population in Africa by increasing the calorific and nutritional value of food produced and consumed domestically
- Provision of medical staff for the national health care systems (physicians, paramedics and nursing), medicine, pharmaceutical and medical equipment
- Improving farmers’ access to agricultural inputs, techniques, technologies and markets so as to increase the availability of staple products which form a core part of the diet of the poorest people in Africa
- Improving farmers’ resilience to climate change and extreme weather conditions
- Improving marketing and adopting modern business strategies
- Addressing issues relevant to gender equity in the field of the Prize
Prize
- The prize has a value of $1,000,000 USD.
