UN FAO Innovation Award 2024 (up to $10,000)

This informs the public about the UN FAO Innovation Award 2024. Details about the Program are given below.

FAO Innovation Award 2024

Program Details

Agricultural innovation is the process whereby individuals or organizations bring new or existing products, processes or ways of organization into use for the first time in a specific context to increase effectiveness, competitiveness, resilience to shocks or environmental sustainability and thereby contribute to food security and nutrition, economic development or sustainable natural resource management.

Innovation consists of doing something new and different, whether solving an old problem in a new way, addressing a new issue with a proven solution, or bringing a new solution to a new problem.

Eligibility

The FAO Award for Innovation will be conferred for ground-breaking innovation in areas under FAO’s mandate to a broad spectrum of awardees, including Members, institutions, individuals, international/regional organizations, academic or research entities, civil society organizations, and private sector entities.

The Award will recognise but not be limited, for example, to innovations in agri-food systems, digital agriculture, agri-food innovation systems, advances in biotechnology, innovation in sustainable production practices such as Agroecology, new business models, etc. The innovations could fall under different categories such as technological, institutional, social, policy and financial innovations.

Award specific criteria:

  • Have an impact on more than one level of the supply chain, from agricultural producers (e.g. farmers, herders, fishers) to consumers.
  • Strengthen the link between agricultural producers and consumers through innovative mechanisms (e.g. innovative institutional arrangements, policy and financial mechanisms, social processes, innovative technological solutions including digital tools, platforms connecting producers and consumers, innovative ways of access to markets and consumers, etc.) with due consideration to environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability.

General criteria:

  • Quality and merit of the innovation
  • Potential benefit, impact and sustainability
  • Accessibility and affordability of the innovation
  • Scalability
  • Value for money
  • Role of youth (under 35), women, and marginalized groups

How to Apply

For those interested in the UN FAO Innovation Award 2024. Open this link to start the application process.

Application Deadline

  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 1 March 2024.

Open this link for more details about the UN FAO Innovation Award 2024.

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