The purpose of the BIFAD Awards for Scientific Excellence is to recognize individual researchers and/or a team of researchers for significant achievements originating from work performed through USAID's Feed the Future Innovation Labs.  

Congratulations to the 2019 recipients of the BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence!

Drs. Yihun Dile, Abeyou Worqlul, and Jean-Claude Bizimana of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation at the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M AgriLife are recipients of the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) 2019 Senior Reseach Team Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab. Mr. Jean Baptiste Ndahetuye of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is the 2019 recipient of the BIFAD Student Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab. The award announcements were made on October 15, 2019 during the BIFAD public meeting in conjunction with the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa.

• BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab: Drs. Yihun Dile, Abeyou Worqlul, and Jean-Claude Bizimana
• BIFAD Student Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab: Mr. Jean Baptiste Ndahetuye

Read about past winners:

• BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab: Dr. Hillary Egna
• BIFAD Student Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab: Mr. Mohammad Mokhlesur Rahman
• Dr. James Beaver of the University of Puerto Rico and Dr. Juan Carlos Rosas of the Zamorano Panamerican Agricultural University in Honduras
• Laouali Amadou of the University of Maradi in Niger
• Drs. Michael Carter of the University of California, Davis and Director of the AMA Innovation Lab, Christopher Barrett of Cornell University, and Andrew Mude of the International Livestock Research Institute
• Singh Daljit of Kansas State University
• Dr. Larry L. Murdock, Purdue University
• Dr. D. Layne Coppock of Utah State University and Dr. Getachew Gebru of MARIL PLC
• Virginia Tech entomologist Muni Muniappan
• UC Davis graduate student Kelsey Barale
• UC Davis graduate student Elana Peach-Fine
• Rutgers plant biologist Jim Simon
• MSU graduate student Gerardine Mukeshimana