The PREMIO DANIEL CARASSO (the “Prize”) is an international award that recognizes and supports a researcher who has achieved outstanding basic or applied research work on the topic “sustainable food and diets for long term human health.
 

As part of its Cross-Cutting Initiative on Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition, the FAO defined sustainable diets in 2010 in these terms:
 

“SUSTAINABLE DIETS are those diets with low environmental impacts which contribute to food and nutrition security and to healthy life for present and future generations. Sustainable diets are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable, nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy, while optimizing natural and human resources”.

Long-term human health includes the full realization of health capital during growth and development, the prevention of disease, and ageing well at an acceptable human, economic, and environmental cost.
 

Eligible scientific domains include basic and applied research in: Nutrition, Food Studies, Food Sciences and Technology, Agriculture, Agronomy, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Agro-ecology, Ecology, Biodiversity, Environmental Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Implementation Research, Nutrition/Food/Agricultural policies (Toxicology is not included).

 

Source and More Information:

http://www.premiodanielcarasso.org/en/content/rules

Non-government organisations (NGOs) play a critical role in helping communities respond to climate change, which can also help alleviate poverty and enhance livelihoods in developing countries.

The Community-based Climate Change Action Grants is a funding scheme for NGOs to develop and implement community-based climate change responses.

Applications are now open for Australian and international NGOs.

Organisations are invited to submit concept proposals under two main categories: