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AWARDS
PEF Leadership Awards – 2024
Three graduate e-learners were selected by the Board of Directors in June 2023 to receive the PEF Postharvest Training Leadership Award. Each awardee will receive a postharvest resources/tools/training kit valued at $1500 and have been invited to participate in a study tour in Kenya during 2024.
Congratulations to:
1. Vincent Gasasira, Rwanda
2. Fanny Ipinge, Botswana and the Netherlands
3. Dr. Olubukola Odeyemi, Nigeria
Cooperative Ventures Awards -2020
During the pandemic times with no travel and few live events, we at PEF were struggling to think of ways in which we could assist our e-learning graduates and postharvest specialists to do their work in 2020-21. All of our workshops and postharvest international events had been cancelled, moved to webinars and online portals, or postponed.
Via this new grant offering, sponsored by Cooperative Ventures, we encouraged encourage the development and implementation of local postharvest training and outreach activities in the 34 countries where our PEF graduates live and work with current or planned postharvest training work and required cooperation with at least one local organization in your community. Cooperation might include joint planning, sharing training staff, or their provision of resources, such as a venue for hosting a workshop or training program, funds or training materials.
To encourage local collaborative efforts in postharvest education (training, outreach, community projects), the “Cooperative Ventures” grant provided a cash award of US$ 1000 for a PEF e-learning graduate who demonstrated the need for funding to develop a new program or improve an existing training program in which they will work cooperatively with a local organization in their country.
The grant was sponsored by ‘Cooperative Ventures’, a small business in the USA, owned and operated by Dr Lisa Kitinoja since 1993.
Awardees and their completion reports (click on the link to open the report in a new tab):
1. Adams Abdul Rahaman – Ghana
4. Robert Nshizirungu – Rwanda
5. François Olivier Ouedraogo – Burkina Faso
6. Pali A. Mazalo Chantal – Togo
9. Mildred Osei-Kwarteng – Ghana
Kader Awards in Postharvest Training
Dr. Adel A. Kader (1941-2012) was a Professor Emeritus of Postharvest Physiology in the Department of Plant Sciences, the University of California at Davis until his death in December 2012. Dr. Kader’s activities included mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, participation in teaching several courses on postharvest physiology and technology of horticultural crops and extension of information to producers, handlers, and consumers. He was a founding member of the board of directors’ of The Postharvest Education Foundation (2011-12).
Eleven Awardees (2013-2019): (click to open the description in a new window)
2019 Irene and Wilberforce Muyomba (Africa Reachout Foundation, Uganda)
Honorable Mentions: Hadijah Nantambi (EcoLife, Uganda) and Angelique Uwamahoro and Bernard Rwubatse (SustainFood.org, Rwanda)
2018 Vijay Yadav Tokala (India)
2017 Fieldwork/Extension Farmer Training Award Winner: Dr Mohammed Razu Ahmed (Bangladesh)
Academic/University Student Training Award Winner: Gerefa Sefu (Ethiopia)
Honorable mentions: Jane Talam (Kenya) and Bernard Rwubatse (Rwanda)
2016 Fieldwork/Extension Farmer Training Award Winner: Roseline Marealle (Tanzania)
Academic/University Student Training Award Winner: Dr. Mohmad Arief Zargar (India)
Honorable mentions: Jane Talam (Kenya) and Samuel Ayuba (Nigeria)
2015 Winners: Mekbib Seife Hailegebrile (Ethiopia) and Olubukola Odeyemi (Nigeria)
Honorable mentions: Radegunda Kessy (Tanzania) and Mohmad Arief Zargar (India).
2014 Esther Mwaisango (Tanzania)
Honorable mentions: Mekbib Seife Hilegebrile, Ethiopia and Olubukola Odeyemi, Nigeria.
2013 Noel Valentin Mulinda (Rwanda)
