SFIAR Award 2011
The Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research offers an annual Award for scientists working for a Swiss institution in agricultural research for development.
With this Award the SFIAR aims to:
a) support relevant agricultural research for development (ARD)
b) promote knowledge on and visibility of Swiss ARD
The thematic scope of the SFIAR award is broad. The SFIAR intends to award new, innovative and result oriented research. Scientists working (or having worked) for a Swiss institution and with appropriate linkages in developing countries can apply .
Winner of SFIAR Award 2011
The Cassava Research Team, led by Dr Hervé Vanderschuren of ETH Zurich has won the SFIAR Award 2011 for their submission: „Cassava research - Technology transfer and capacity building: Making tropical crop technologies available where it can have an impact”
Documents
Press release: English | German PDF, 365kb
Short description of awarded Project PDF, 368kb
More information on the Cassava Research Team
Laudatio SFIAR Award 2011, given at Award ceremony PDF, 91kb
Award ceremony
The award ceremony was held at the World Food Day Symposium "Food Price Volatility and Food Security" organized by BLW / SDC on 11 October 2011 in Bern
Media coverage
ETH Life (german)
Landwirtschaftlicher Informationsdienst LID (german)
Swissaid
Photos
Click on fotos for high-res version; from left to right:
- Hervé Vanderschuren and Charles Orek (PhD student, ETH Zürich) at ILRI-BecA Hub (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Scientists performing cassava genetic transformation at Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Evans Nyaboga (PhD student, University of Nairobi) on a cassava field trial in Kiboko (Kenya)
- Ima Zainuddin (PhD student, ETH Zürich) performing post-harvest deterioration test on cassava roots at LIPI Bogor (Indonesia)
- Ravi Bodampalli (PhD student, ETH Zürich) testing virus resistant cassava lines in the greenhouse of ETH Zürich
Winner of SFIAR Award 2010
Dr. Lian Pin Koh (ETH) has won the SFIAR Award 2010 for his project “A spatially-explicit scenario analysis for reconciling agricultural expansion, forest protection, and carbon conservation in Indonesia".
left: Dr. Lian Pin Koh / right: Dr. Padruot Fried (SFIAR President)
Documents
Press release: English | German | French PDF, 261kb
Short description of awarded Project PDF, 81kb
Interactive web tool developed by Dr. Lian Pin Koh
Award ceremony presentation by Dr. Lian Pin Koh PPT, 13'969kb
Award ceremony
The award ceremony was held on 15 September 2010 at ETH Zurich on the occasion of Tropentag 2010
Photos
Click on fotos for high-res version (left: Dr. Lian Pin Koh, center: Fruit of oil palm,
right: Oil palm plantation in Indonesia)
Media coverage
ETH Life (german)
Winner of SFIAR Award 2009
Prof. Silvia Dorn (ETH) working with Dr. Cesar Cardona of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia and Drs. Ine Schmale, Guido Velten and Anja Rott at ETH Zürich, have won the SFIAR Award 2009 for their project “Preventing post-harvest losses by a combination of a parasitoid and host plant resistance in dry beans".
Documents
Press release: English | German | French PDF, 162kb
Poster of awarded project (English) PDF, 1260kb
Photos from project with explanations (German) PDF, 2351kb
Award ceremony
The award ceremony was held at a Symposium on the occasion of World Food Day 2009 in Bern on 15 October 2009.
Media coverage
Schweizer Bauer (german)
Swissinfo (german) / Swissinfo (spanish)
ETH Life (german)
Interportal (german)
Agrigate (german)
Schweizerischer Bauernverband (german, not available anymore)
Winner of SFIAR Award 2008
Christoph Studer and team from the Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL) have won the SFIAR Award 2008 for their project "Response-Inducing Sustainability Evaluation (RISE) – Improving the Sustainability of Agricultural Production".
Press release: English| German | French PDF, 300kb
The award ceremony was held at the conference "How to ensure food security today and tomorrow?" at ETH Zurich on 12 December 2008 (see photos and video coverage).
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Documents
Press release on Award winner 2011
(05.10.2011):
English | German
PDF, 356kb
Award Guidelines
SFIAR Award guidelines
PDF, 372kb
, Latest update: 26.10.2011