AIC Honours and Awards

Call for Nominations 2012

AIC honours individuals and organizations that have made a significant contribution to agriculture in Canada and internationally. Nominations for our Fellowship, Sustainable Futures, and International Recognition Awards are invited before the deadline of March 31, 2012.

AIC Fellowship

AIC's highest honour, the title of Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada recognizes an individual AIC member who has made a distinguished contribution to Canadian agriculture through contributions to building scientific capacity for societal good, integration and collaboration between disciplines and sectors, and communications.

Past Recipients
Guidance Statement
Nomination Form

Sustainable Futures Award

The Sustainable Futures Award recognizes imminent leaders - young men and women who are advancing and applying innovative scientific knowledge on the sustainable use of agricultural resources for societal good.

Guidance Statement
Nomination Form
2010 Recipient - Dr. Chris Cutler

International Recognition Award

The International Recognition Award honours individuals and organization who have made outstanding contributions to the improvement of agriculture in the Developing World.

Guidance Statement
Nomination Form - Individuals
Nomination Form - Organizations

2011 Award Recipients

Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada

Congratulations to Dr. John Kennelly, recipient of AIC's highest award, Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, for his distinguished contributions to Canadian agriculture. The award presentation took place on October 21, 2011 at the University of Alberta, where Dr. Kennelly is Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences.

Pictured David Chanasyk (left), Past President, AIC and John Kennelly. Photo courtesy University of Alberta.

International Recognition Award

Congratulations to the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science and the Ghana Institute of Horticulturalists, recipients of the 2011 International Recognition Award for their International Twinning Partnership Project, Strengthening the Impact of Horticulture on Social Development in Ghana. The award was presented at the AIC Annual General Meeting on July 17, 2011.

Pictured left to right: Doug Yungblut, AIC President, Dr. Samir Debnath, CSHS Vice-President, project Canada Coordinators Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald and Josée Owen (lead). The Canadian team also includes Dr. Merv Pritchard and Dinah Ceplis.

The presentation to the Ghana Institute of Horticulturists will take place when a representative of AIC's international program next visits Ghana.