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Indian-origin professor bags food innovation award
Each award comes with a $100,000 cash prize.
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Professor Brajesh Singh. / Courtesy Photo
Brajesh Singh, an Indian-origin professor at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Australia's Western Sydney University, has been awarded the Arrell Global Food Innovation Research Impact Award.
Presented annually by the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph in Canada, the Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards recognize excellence and impact in food innovation by both researchers and individuals. Each award comes with a $100,000 cash prize.
Expressing his gratitude for the international recognition, Singh said, “I would like to specifically mention my past and present students and postdocs who have driven science, the Global Initiative of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s bodies such as the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soil and International Network of Soil Biodiversity to affect policy changes. It is collective efforts that bring transformative change, and I am lucky to be a part of these global teams.”
Singh, a global leader in soil biological health and ecosystem ecology, has made notable contributions to agriculture, food systems, and climate change. His work has influenced global policy decisions, including at the United Nations, significantly improving productivity and profitability for key stakeholders.
His notable achievements include being the first to highlight the vulnerability of soil biodiversity and abundance to climate change; developing national-scale soil health indicators and founding the Global Initiative of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment to gather baseline data on microbiomes for agricultural and environmental sustainability; creating the inaugural global atlas of soil bacteria, fungi, and crop pathogens, among others.
Professor Evan Fraser, director of the Arrell Food Institute, extended his congratulations saying, “These awards are designed to recognise and reward those who are making important contributions to improving global food systems. This year's winners are leaders, who inspire us all to think in new and creative ways about how to do more with less.”
The Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards, established in 2018, are judged each year by a panel of internationally recognized researchers and community activists.
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