Nominations open for Arrell Global Food Innovation Award 2025

Focus Areas

• 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.

Themes

• 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.

Funding Information

• 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.

Eligibility Criteria

• 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, governmental units, charitable foundations, and not-for-profit organizations. In the case of multiple nominations from a single organization, only the one with the latest date will be accepted.

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 their 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.

For more information, visit Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph.