BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab

The BIFAD Awards for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab recognize individual researchers and/or research teams for significant achievements originating from work performed under the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) funded Feed the Future Innovation Labs and Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs). Two awards are anticipated to be given annually: one for an individual researcher or a team of researchers and one for a student researcher. The awards recognize research efforts that contribute to the interrelated and interdependent objectives of the Global Food Security Strategy: inclusive and sustainable agriculture-led economic growth, strengthened resilience among people and systems, and a well-nourished population. The awards are currently closed to nominations.

Learn about Past Winners.

Student Researcher Awardees, 2012 – 2019

(no awards were given in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic)

• 2019 – Jean Baptiste Ndahetuye, University of Rwanda
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock, University of Florida
• 2018 – Mohammad Mokhlesur Rahman, Kansas State University
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Applied Wheat Genomics, Kansas State University
• 2017 – Amadou Laouali, University of Maradi, Niger
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Sorghum & Millet, Kansas State University
• 2016 – Daljit Singh, Kansas State University
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Applied Wheat Genomics, Kansas State University
• 2014 – Kelsey Barale and Elana Peach-Fine, University of California, Davis
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture
• 2013 – Elana Peach-Fine, University of California, Davis
  • Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), University of California, Davis
• 2012 – Gerardine Mukeshimana, Michigan State University
  • PULSE Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), Michigan State University

Senior Researcher or Research Team Awardees, 2012 – 2020

(no awards were given in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic)

• 2019 – Yihun Dile, Abeyou Worqlulu, Jean-Claude Bizimana, Texas A&M University
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation, Texas A&M University
• 2018 – Hillary Egna, Oregon State University; David Bengtson, University of Rhode Island; Remedios Bolivar, Central Luzon State University, Philippines; Russell Borski, North Carolina State University; Charles Ngugi, Kenyatta University, Kenya; Tran Thi Thanh Hien, Can Tho University, Vietnam
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Aquaculture & Fisheries, Oregon State University
• 2017 – James Beaver, University of Puerto Rico; Juan Carlos Rosas, Zamorano Panamerican Agricultural University, Honduras
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legumes, Michigan State University
• 2016 – Michael Carter, University of California, Davis; Christopher Barrett, Cornell University; Andrew Mude, ILRI
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access and Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), University of California, Davis
• 2015 – D. Layne Coppock, Utah State University; Getachew Gebru and Solomon Desta, ILRI
  • Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), University of California, Davis
• 2015 – Larry Murdock, Purdue University
  • Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) and Legume Innovation Lab, Michigan State University
• 2014 – Rangaswamy (Muni) Muniappan, Virginia Tech University
  • Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) and Feed the Future Innovation Lab, Virginia Tech University
• 2012 – James Simon, Rutgers University
  • Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), University of California, Davis