The Borlaug CAST Communication Award, formerly the Charles A. Black Award, is an annual award presented by the

Council for Agricultural Science and Technology A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or natio ...

(CAST) focused on candidates who engage in promoting agriculture and agriculture-related communications.

Recipients

* 1986: Charles A. Black * 1987: William E. Larson * 1989: Stanley E. Curtis * 1990: Donald E. Davis * 1991: Homer M. LeBaron * 1992: John Pesek * 1993: Fergus M. Clydesdale * 1994: F. J. Francis * 1995: Dale E. Bauman * 1996: Luther G. Tweeten * 1997: Neil E. Harl * 1998:

Per Pinstrup-Andersen Per Pinstrup-Andersen (born 1939) is a Danish economist and a Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. Before retiring in 2013, he was the Howard Edward Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and the J. Thomas Clark Professor of E ...

* 1999: Abner W. Womack * 2000: Dennis R. Keeney * 2001: Judith S. Stern * 2002: Calvin O. Qualset * 2003: Kong Luen Heong * 2004: Marjorie A. Hoy * 2005: Norman Borlaug * 2006: Stanley R. Johnson * 2007: David H. Baker * 2008:

Pedro A. Sanchez Pedro Sanchez (born 1940) is the director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center, senior research scholar, and director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sanchez was director general of the World ...

* 2009:

Richard Wayne Skaggs Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

* 2010:

Akin Adesina Akin may refer to: People * Akin (given name), a list of people * Akin (surname), a list of people * Akın, a list of people with the Turkish given name or surname Places * Akin, Illinois, a town in the United States * Akin, Aksaray, a village ...

* 2011:

Catherine Bertini Catherine "Cathy" Bertini is an American public servant. She is the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate. She was the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program from 1992 to 2002. She served as the UN Under-Secretary for Management fr ...

Laureates
, CAST (last visited Oct. 13, 2012). * 2012: Carl Winter * 2013: Jeff Simmons, President of Elanco * 2014: Alison Van Eenennaam * 2015: Channapatna S. Prakash Dr. C.S. Prakash honored at the 2015 Borlaug CAST Communication Award ceremony
CAST (last visited April 22nd, 2016). * 2016: Kevin FoltaDr. Kevin Folta chosen as 2016 Borlaug CAST Communication Award winner
CAST (last visited April 22nd, 2016).

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