Colleagues,

Tomorrow, 30th August 2016, we host an important event at the ILRI Nairobi campus. Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation will personally announce this year’s Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application.

Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the award is presented every October in Des Moines, Iowa, by the World Food Prize Foundation. It recognizes exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under the age of 40 who has clearly demonstrated Borlaug-like intellectual courage, stamina and determination in the fight to eliminate global hunger and poverty.

This year’s awardee is from Kenya and is known to many ILRI staff.

You are cordially invited to this event which takes place in the large tent in the football field. It starts at 1100hrs sharp, with coffee available from 1030hrs. The event finishes at 1230hrs with lunch for invited guests.

For people who cannot join or are located outside Nairobi, we have set up a live web streaming link at: ilri.org/livestream

Staff in Nairobi: A security message will follow concerning parking and other matters.

Best regards,

Jimmy Smith| Director General
International Livestock Research Institute | ilri.org
Box 30709, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya