The Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards recognize global excellence in the broad area of food innovation and community impact. In 2023, two awards will be given: One award will recognize a researcher, or group of researchers, who has advanced understanding of food production, processing, distribution, consumption, safety and/or human nutrition, with a significant benefit to food systems or wider society. Likely themes include: food science, the environmental impact of agriculture, crop or livestock genetics, agro-ecology, soil health, food animal health and production, pest management, supply chain management, food processing. food packaging, food safety, food consumption, human nutrition, food retail/marketing. While we expect contributions at the highest level, nominations for early career researchers are welcome and will be considered by the adjudication committee.
The other 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.
Criteria
The crtaria toy awarding the Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards are as follows:
The individual or group being nominated will have made exceptionally significant and documented contrbutions to other our scientific understanding related to food production, detribution and sales, or human nutrition/consumption; and/or at the community level in medy Improving nutrition, including access to, or distribution of food. • The nomination package must clearly demonstrate how the individual or group being
nominated played a critical loadership role in achieving the above noted contributions. The nomination package should not be a proposal or a request for funding. • Nominees must be able to attend the award ceremony and ancillary events.
Terms of the prize
The Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards come with the following terms:
Each of the two prizes will be worth $125,000 CAD comprising a $100,000 cash award for the personal use of recipients and up to $25,000 per award for travel and accommodation
of the recipients, administered by the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph. An award citation and a commemorative item will also be presented. .Recipients are expected to participate in a program of events. In particular, award recipients may be asked to attend the next Arrell Food Summit and other engagements.
if there are any disruptions related to the global pandemic a determination on the travel and accommodation component of the award will be made some time in the future.
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, govemmental 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.
Nomination procedure
Academic institutions, governmental units or private/public organisations may submit a nomination for the Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards. Each organization may submit one application to each award. Nomination packages are strictly confidential and the identities of nominators, nominating organizations and nominees are kept in strict confidence, except for the winners. Self-identified demographic information will be collected to monitor our ongoing efforts to consider the full range of human achievement. The nomination package must clearly demonstrate how the individual or group being nominated played a critical leadership role in achieving the outcomes, and must include the following:
• Information on the nomination (suggested length – up to one page): Nominee’s name(s), current position, mailing address, e-mail address and telephone number.
- Which award (“research” or “community”) they are being nominated for.
- The name and contact details of the organization submitting the nomination.
- An endorsement by a senior official (President, Vice-President, Managing Director, Chief Executive, Chair, Dean) of the nominating organization, verifying the accuracy of the information and endorsing the nominee(s) as the only nomination from the organization.
- How or where you found out about the award.
Nomination statement (suggested length 3-5 pages):
- Description of the nominee’s achievement in terms of the science of food or for contributions at the community level.
• Description of the impact of the nominee’s contribution.
- Cross referencing to the letters of support and additional documents as described in the next two points.
Letters of support from up to 3 individuals and/or organizations who know the nominee’s work, but are not directly associated with the nominee’s work or organization (suggested length up to 4 pages).
Additional documents that could include: articles describing the nominee’s contributions and/or the impact of her/his/their work; other awards and recognitions; publications by or about the nominee that drectly relate to their contribution (suggested length up to 5 pages).
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