2009 Crawford Fund Derek Tribe Award

Nominations closed on 1 May 2009.

Nominations are now open for the Crawford Fund Derek Tribe Award for an agricultural researcher with a distinguished record of involvement and achievement in the application of research in agriculture and natural resource management in a developing country or countries.

The recipient will attend a seminar, or other public event, nominated by The Crawford Fund, to receive the award and to deliver "The Crawford Fund Derek Tribe Award Address".

In addition, the recipient will undertake a visit of about two weeks to agricultural centres in Australia with the intention of enhancing networking and linkages between the recipient's home institution and country with similar bodies and individuals in Australia.

The Crawford Fund Derek Tribe Award was inaugurated in 2001 to mark the outstanding contributions of Emeritus Professor Derek Tribe AO OBE FTSE, Foundation Director of the Crawford Fund, to the promotion of international agricultural research. The award is made biennially.

Further information and nomination forms may be downloaded from http://www.crawfordfund.org/awards/dtaward.htm

Past recipients

The inaugural Derek Tribe Award was made in 2001 to Dr Sanjaya Rajaram, a researcher in the wheat breeding program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico for his outstanding contributions and leadership in the breeding of bread wheats.

The recipient of the 2003 Award was Dr Luis Salazar, Head of the Plant Protection Department, International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru whose contributions include the development and implementation of virus clean-up technology for sweet potato.

In 2005, the winner of the Award was Professor Vo-Tong Xuan, Angiang University, Angiang, Vietnam for his personal and practical contribution to the restoration and improvement of rice production in the Mekong Delta after the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Pol Pot era.

In 2007, Dr Ismail Çakmak, Professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey was the recipient for his outstanding work and leadership in identifying zinc deficiency as the underlying cause of poor wheat yields in the calcareous soils of the Anatolian region in Turkey.