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 SummaryÂ
- 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 PerksÂ
- 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 RequirementsÂ
- 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
Deadline: June 27, 2025
