S&T Awards*
The Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, presented every year by the World Food Prize Foundation, is endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation in honour of Nobel Peace Prize winner and World Food Prize founder, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug. This $10,000 award recognizes exceptional, science-based achievement in the field of international agriculture and food production by an individual under the age of 40. The Award is presented in a ceremony during World Food Prize Week events in Des Moines, Iowa, on or near World Food Day, October 16. The Prize is awarded to those who have clearly emulated the same intellectual courage, stamina and determination in the fight to eliminate global hunger and poverty as shown by Dr. Norman Borlaug as a young scientist working in Mexico in the 1940's and 50's. The candidates are evaluated and selected based on the attributes and accomplishments that include Persistence, Innovation, Communication, Research/Science, Extension, Education, Application, Leadership and Impact. The award honours an individual who works closely and directly ?in the field? or at the production or processing level with farmers, animal herders, fishers or others in rural communities, in any discipline or enterprise across the entire food production, processing, and distribution chain.