Technology Advancement Award

2015 – Lydia Sasu, Ghana

Global Farmer NetworkDecember 18, 2015

Lydia Sasu had a tough choice to make. While she was being honored with the Kleckner Trade & Technology Advancement Award in Des Moines, Iowa, she would be ...

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2014 – Ian Pigott, United Kingdom

Mary BooteDecember 15, 2014

DES MOINES, IOWA – When you visit London, if you find yourself on The Tube, you’ll be cautioned to “Mind the Gap”. This means to be careful about the step betwe...

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2013 – V. Ravichandran, India

Global Farmer NetworkOctober 17, 2013

Farmers have a social obligation to feed our populations with enough food and eradicate hunger Des Moines, Iowa – “We, as farmers, besides earning for our fa...

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V. Ravichandran: We have a social obligation to uplift the lives of the less privileged

Mary BooteOctober 10, 2013

Shortly after returning home from the World Food Prize in 2010, Indian farmer Ravichandran Vanchinathan sent me an email: “TATT has made me realize my social ob...

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2012 – Rajesh Kumar, India

Global Farmer NetworkOctober 25, 2012

Rajesh Kumar, India - recipient of the 2012 Kleckner Trade and Technology Advancement Award. Farmers in the developing world must be allowed to embrace biot...

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2011 – Gilbert arap Bor, Kenya

Global Farmer NetworkNovember 3, 2011

Farmers in the developing world must participate in the global economy by embracing and using new technologies Des Moines, Iowa – Gilbert arap Bor ...

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2010 – Gabriela Cruz, Portugal

Global Farmer NetworkNovember 22, 2010

Governments should empower--not deny--farmers the ability to do their best Des Moines, Iowa –Gabriela Cruz is passionate about many things: the fam...

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2009 – Jim McCarthy, Ireland

Global Farmer NetworkNovember 4, 2009

Des Moines, Iowa – Jim McCarthy thrives on change. An early “change” in his life was to shed his “towny” roots, and concentrate his studies on becoming a farm m...

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2007 – Rosalie Ellasus, Philippines

Global Farmer NetworkOctober 17, 2007

A Philippine farm woman who used biotechnology to solve her production challenges on the 1.3 hectare farm she purchased with her savings after her husband’s dea...

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2015 – Lydia Sasu, Ghana

2014 – Ian Pigott, United Kingdom

2013 – V. Ravichandran, India

V. Ravichandran: We have a social obligation to uplift the lives of the less privileged

2012 – Rajesh Kumar, India

2011 – Gilbert arap Bor, Kenya

2010 – Gabriela Cruz, Portugal

2009 – Jim McCarthy, Ireland

2007 – Rosalie Ellasus, Philippines