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The Borlaug CAST Communication Award, formerly the Charles A. Black Award, is an annual award presented by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) to a "scientist, engineer, technologist, or other professional working in the agricultural, environmental, or food sectors for contributing to the advancement of science in the public policy arena". The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) is a non-profit whose primary purpose is to publish science-based reviews and reports on topics related to agriculture and food. As originally named, the award acknowledged the contributions of Charles Allen Black, founding president of CAST. Its current name honors Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug, "The Man Who Fed the World". who was the author of the first of CAST's publications, in 1973.
== Recipients == As the Charles A. Black Award:
1986: Charles Allen Black 1987: William E. Larson 1989: Stanley E. Curtis 1990: Donald E. Davis 1991: Homer McKay LeBaron 1992: John T. Pesek 1993: F. M. Clydesdale 1994: Frederick John Francis 1995: Dale E. Bauman 1996: Luther G. Tweeten 1997: Neil E. Harl 1998: Per Pinstrup-Andersen 1999: Abner W. Womack 2000: Dennis Keeney 2001: Judith S. Stern 2002: C. O. Qualset 2003: Kong Luen Heong 2004: Marjorie Hoy 2005: Norman Borlaug 2006: Stanley R. Johnson 2007: David H. Baker 2008: Pedro A. Sanchez 2009: Richard Wayne Skaggs As the Borlaug CAST Communication Award:
2010: Akinwumi Adesina 2011: Catherine Bertini 2012: Carl K. Winter 2013: Jeffrey N. Simmons 2014: Alison Van Eenennaam 2015: C. S. Prakash 2016: Kevin Folta 2017: Jayson Lusk 2018: Marty Matlock 2019: Frank Mitloehner 2020: Alexa J. Lamm 2021: Sarah Davidson Evanega 2022: Martin Wiedmann 2023: Alison R. Bentley 2024 Jack A. Bobo
== Notes ==
== External links == Official award page
== See also == Public awareness of science Science journalism