Name of the Event: 2025 FAO Champion Award
Date: 28 June - 4 July 2025
Place: FAO Headquarters, Rome
Last Date of Application: 31 January 2025
Link to Apply:
The Champion Award is FAO’s highest honour. It recognises outstanding leaders from governments, civil society and the private sector whose actions have a transformative impact towards increased food security and achieving the 2030 Agenda, making sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.
The Award, which includes a cash prize of USD 50,000, will be presented by the FAO Director-General to the winning individual or representative of the recipient institution at a special ceremony during the FAO Conference from 28 June to 4 July 2025.
Eligibility:
Any individual, national, regional or global institution that has, in the course of the biennium preceding the Conference, made a significant and outstanding contribution towards advancing the overall goals of the Organization, including the achievement of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
Basic Criteria:
To qualify, one or more of the criteria listed below must be met. The winning individual or institution should demonstrate how they-
made a significant and outstanding contribution towards advancing the overall goals of the Organization, including the achievement of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals;
developed analyses that support the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems and successfully advocated for consistent measures that have been adopted and applied, on a large scale, by governments, civil society organizations and/or private enterprises, through programmes aimed ensuring a sustainable and food-secure world for all, and/or;
implemented large-scale programmes for eliminating poverty, ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition, and reducing inequalities, that have demonstrated a sustainable impact and alignment with the 2030 Agenda.
We are not the official organisers of the program. If you have any queries regarding it, kindly contact the organisers at - FAO-Awards@fao.org
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