2015 – Lydia Sasu, Ghana
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 ...
Technology Advancement Award
2014 – Ian Pigott, United Kingdom
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...
2013 – V. Ravichandran, India
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...
V. Ravichandran: We have a social obligation to uplift the lives of the less privileged
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...
2012 – Rajesh Kumar, India
Rajesh Kumar, India - recipient of the 2012 Kleckner Trade and Technology Advancement Award. Farmers in the developing world must be allowed to embrace biot...
2011 – Gilbert arap Bor, Kenya
Farmers in the developing world must participate in the global economy by embracing and using new technologies Des Moines, Iowa – Gilbert arap Bor ...
2010 – Gabriela Cruz, Portugal
Governments should empower--not deny--farmers the ability to do their best Des Moines, Iowa –Gabriela Cruz is passionate about many things: the fam...
2009 – Jim McCarthy, Ireland
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...
2007 – Rosalie Ellasus, Philippines
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...