Elevating Heroes of Agriculture: 2025 Africa Food Prize For Outstanding Africans

Elevating Heroes of Agriculture: 2025 Africa Food Prize For Outstanding Africans

The Africa Food Prize recognizes extraordinary women, men, and institutions whose outstanding contributions to African agriculture are forging a new era of sustainable food security and economic opportunity that elevates all Africans.

Building on the values and principles established by the Yara Prize, the Africa Food Prize puts a bright spotlight on achievements and innovations with transformative power that can be scaled and replicated across the continent to eliminate hunger and poverty and provide a vital new source of employment and income.

The Africa Food Prize is the preeminent award that is leading the effort to change the reality of farming in Africa from a struggle to survive to a business that thrives.

2025 Africa Food Prize Summary 

• Type: Awards
• Value: $100,000
• Eligible Countries: African Countries
• Perks: Prize includes $100,000 cash, A diploma and A trophy
• Deadline: 27th June, 2025

2025 Africa Food Prize Perks 

• The $100,000 prize celebrates Africans who are taking control of Africa’s agriculture agenda.
• It puts a spotlight on bold initiatives and technical innovations that can be replicated across the continent to create a new era of food security and economic opportunity for all Africans.
• The prize includes $100,000 cash, a diploma and a trophy.
• The Prize can be awarded to more than one winner, but not more than two. If shared, each winner will receive equal prize money (USD $100,000 divided in two), a diploma and a trophy.

2025 Africa Food Prize Requirements 

• The Africa Food Prize can be awarded to any individual or identifiable group of individuals, as well as to established institutions, associations, organizations or government bodies with a formal and recognized judicial and organizational structure contributing to the overall objectives of the Prize.
• The Prize can be awarded to any qualified candidate, irrespective of nationality, profession or location, whose work, and contributions deriving from the work, has had a clear impact on the African situation, nationally, regionally or for the continent.

• The Prize can be awarded with reference to a specific contribution or achievement, or a series of efforts and results in the recent past, preferably within the last few years.

• Current or recent members of the Africa Food Prize Committee, or an institution/organization headed by such a member, are ineligible for the Prize.
• The Prize cannot be awarded to a person already deceased but will be presented in the event a Prize winner dies before receiving the Prize.

Selection Criterias for the 2025 Africa Food Prize

The Prize Committee considers the following criteria for the Prize:

• Contribution to reducing poverty and hunger and/or improving food and nutrition security in measurable terms
• Contribution to providing a vital source of income and/or employment in measurable terms
• Potential for transformative change through scalability, replication, and sustainability
• Increased awareness and cooperation among African audiences and organizations

Apply Here for the 2025 Africa Food Prize