in improving soil health and increasing crop production through the implementation of innovative on-farm fertilizer management strategies 2016: Andrew Mude, for his persistence in his science-based, community mediated, and innovative approach to providing financial protection, through insurance, to millions of poor herders and their families who care for and depend upon their livestock as they move across the vast rangelands of East Africa 2015: Eric Pohlman, for his work in developing highly innovative programs that are transforming subsistence agriculture in rural Rwanda. 2014: Dr. Bram Govaerts, for his work developing leading-edge, sustainable programs that are transforming subsistence agriculture and unsustainable farming systems in Mexico and other regions of the world into productive and sustainable production operations. 2013: Dr. Charity Kawira Mutegi, for her efforts to identify the cause of, and solution to, a deadly outbreak of aflatoxicosis in 2004-05. Her diligent research led to innovative solutions to avert future outbreaks and safeguard Kenya's staple crop of maize. 2012: Dr. Aditi Mukherji, for her research on groundwater resources in agriculture, which led to major policy changes benefiting thousands of farmers in West Bengal. References See also Norman Borlaug World Food Prize List of agriculture awards Academic conferences Food politics