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 2016 recipients of the BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence!

Dr. Michael Carter, Dr. Christopher Barrett, Dr. Andrew Mude, and Singh Daljit received the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) Scientific Award for Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab on October 12, 2016. The Awards were given at the BIFAD public meeting held in conjunction with the 2016 World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. 

• 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

Read about past winners:

• 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