Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards 2025 (up to $100,000 prize)

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Nominations are now open for the Arrell Global Food Innovation Community Awards. Awarded annually since 2018, the Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards recognize unique approaches and achievements of individuals and organizations around the globe. The prizes of $100,000 can be awarded in research innovation and community engagement innovation.

This award, valued at $100,000, recognizes global excellence in the broad area of food innovation and community impact. In 2025, one award will be given to an individual or group who has contributed to improved nutritional health and/or food security, with a focus on strengthening disadvantaged communities.

Citizens of any country are eligible to apply. Nominations may come from private companies, academic institutions, government units, charitable foundations, and not-for-profit organizations.

Arrell Global Food Innovation Community Awards 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 for Arrell Global Food Innovation Community Awards

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.

Selection 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.