Applications Invited for Arrell Global Food Innovation Award 2025

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About the Organization

Arrell Food Institute activities are shaped by needs within the food system and the resources the University of Guelph can provide to meeting those needs.

Our Shared Vision: A sustainable, reliable, and just food system.

Our Collective Goal: Informing resilient and sustainable global food systems based on a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the latest evidence.

About the Award

Awarded annually since 2018, the Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards recognize unique approaches and achievements of individuals and organizations around the globe. The prizes of $100,000 can be awarded in research innovation and community engagement innovation.

Nominations are now open for the Arrell Global Food Innovation Community Award.

This award, valued at $100,000, recognizes global excellence in the broad area of food innovation and community impact. In 2025, one award will be given to an individual or group who has contributed to improved nutritional health and/or food security, with a focus on strengthening disadvantaged communities.

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.

Criteria:

The criteria for awarding the Arrell Global Food Innovation Award is as follows:

• The individual or group being nominated will have made exceptionally significant and documented contributions at the community level in markedly improving nutrition, including access to, or distribution of food.
• The nomination package must clearly demonstrate alignment with our mission, which is to produce more healthy and nutritious food with less environmental impact and economic inequality, “more with less”.
• 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 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.

Eligibility

Citizens of any country are eligible to apply. Nominations may come from private companies, academic institutions, government units, charitable foundations, and not-for-profit organizations.

How to Apply

Nominations must be submitted by 12:00 PM on April 24.

All documents must be submitted by 12:00 p.m. ET on April 24, 2025 in Adobe (.pdf) format to afiawards@uoguelph.ca and this is also the address for any inquiries.

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