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• CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted to Joe Thome, and Robin Buruchara.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Young Scientist-of-the-Year Award (OYSYA), granted to Fausto Rodriguez, and German Plata.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted to Tetsuya Sakurai, German Plata, Fausto Rodriguez, Motoali Seki, Andres Salcedo, Atsushi Toyoda, Atsushi Hiwata, Joe Tohme, Yoshiyuki Sake, Kazuo S. Manabu Ishitani.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Employee of the Year Award (OEYA), granted to Sory Hernan Sanchez.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted to Myriam Cristina Duque.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Team of the Year Award (OTYA), granted to the Genetic Resources Unit.

• The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Award granted to CIAT for the Center's work on beans in that country.

2007

• Outstanding Partnership Award, granted by CGIAR to CLAYUCA, for its efforts to expand members’ access to technologies for improving cassava production, processing, and utilization in Latin America and Africa.

• Achievement Award in Bean (Phaseolus) Improvement, granted by the Bean Improvement Cooperative (BIC) to Matthew Blair.
  
  
• Second prize at the 10th Annual Meeting of Colombian Breeders in June 2007, Award granted to Mathew Blair.
  
  
• The “Héctor Delgado Zambrano”, Award granted to César Martínez.
  
  
• Best Postgraduate Thesis Award, granted at the IX National Meeting and II International Meeting of Researchers in Animal Sciences, ENICIP 2007, to Laila Cristina Bernal (postgraduate thesis supervised by Carlos Lascano and Patricia Ávila).
  
  
• Recognition for article in NOVON 16:105-111 of 2006, granted by the American Journal Experts to the CIAT Genetic Resources Unit.
  
  
• Best Research Scientist in College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, Award granted by the University of Nairobi (Kenya) to Paul Kimani.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted to Segenet Kelemu.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Young Scientist-of-the-Year Award (OYSYA), granted to Marcela Quintero.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted to Elizabeth Balyejusa Kizito, Linley Chiwona-Karltun, Thomas Egwang, Martin Fregene, and Anna Westerbergh.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Employee of the Year Award (OEYA), granted to Girlena Aricapa.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted to Paula Ximena Hurtado.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Team of the Year Award (OTYA), granted to the Motor Pool team.
  
  
• Award to the best scientific poster under the Science for Environmental Benefit Category, presented during the 2007 Knowledge Sharing Week, granted to the CIAT Genetic Resources Unit.

2006

• Recognition for scientific contribution in rice, Award granted by "General Saavedra" Municipal Council, Bolivia, to the CIAT Rice Project (Lee Calvert and Marc Châtel).
  
  
• First Prize at the GFAR-2006 Poster Competition, Award granted by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) to Jonas Chianu, Peter Okoth, Omo Ohiokpehai, Kristina Roing, Bernard Vanlauwe, Nteranya Sanginga, Pat Naido, Akin Adesina, and Joyce Opondo.
  
  
• Third Innovation Marketplace Award, high-level recognition, granted by the CGIAR at AGM 2006 to CIAT-FLAR.
  
  
• Humber Prize, granted by the University of Nottingham, UK, to Jean-Claude Rubyogo.
  
  
• The CGIAR Science Award for Outstanding Partnership at AGM 2006, granted to the CGIAR Genebank Community.
  
  
• The CGIAR Science Award for Outstanding Scientific Support Team at AGM 2006, granted to the CGIAR Information Managers/Librarians Community.
  
  
• 2006 Semilleros ADN Prize for Best Agricultural Biotechnology Research Project,
  granted by Agro-Bio to Jesús Alonso Beltrán (undergraduate thesis directed by
  Paul Chavarriaga and supervised by Joe Tohme).
  
  
• 2006 Semilleros ADN Prize Third Place, granted by Agro-Bio to Luz Elena Romero, Iván Lozano Potes, and Natalia Villareal (undergraduate thesis supervised by
  Lee Calvert).
  
  
• International Service in Agronomy Award, granted by the American Society of
  Agronomy (ASA) to the "Cassava Team" (Reinhardt Howeler, Watana Watananonta, and Tran Ngoc Ngoan).
  
  
• Poster finalist, Kellogg's Latin American Award to Research on Food and Human Nutrition, granted by the Latin American Nutritional Society to Helena Pachón.
  
  
• The Order of the Seed, Gold Category, granted by INPROARROZ Rice Industry to the CIAT Rice Project.
  
  
• One of the Best Learning Experiences of Africa Forum 2006 of Dual Epidemics of HIV and Food Security, granted by the Project Concern International to Jonas Chianu, Brenda Kingolla, Omo Ohiokpehai, Nteranya Sanginga, and Bernard Vanlauwe.
  
  
• Friendship Award, granted by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs,
  State Council of People's Republic of China to Segenet Kelemu.
  
  
• The Order of Australia for services to primary industry through research and the development of sustainable tropical pasture technology to increase food production, rural incomes, and scientific knowledge in Asia, Central and Southern America, and Australia, granted to Bert Grof (former CIAT scientist).
  
  
• Award to the best poster presented during the XXXIII Congress at the Colombian Society of Entomology to Claudia Marcela Ospina, Daniel C. Peck, and Jairo Rodríguez Chalarca.
  
  
• Third Class of the "Most Exalted Order for the White Elephant", granted by the
  Thai Government to Reinhardt Howeler.
  
  
• Poster Award granted by the Global Health Council to Helena Pachón.
  
  
• Scholarship to undertake graduate studies, granted by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia to Germán Alonso Plata.

2005

• CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted to:
  
  - María Isabel Chacón, S. Barbara Pickersgill, and Daniel Debouck.
  - Arturo Carabalí, Anthony Bellotti, James Montoya, and María Elena Cuéllar.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted to Hernán Ceballos.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted to Vilia Escober.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Employee of the Year Award (OEYA), granted to José Francisco Ortega.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Team of the Year Award (OTYA), granted to Procurement and Maintenance Unit.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Young Scientist of the Year Award (OYSYA), granted to Jairo Rodriguez Calarcá.

2004

• CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted to César Cardona, Paola Fory, Guillermo Sotelo, Alejandro Pabón, Giovanna Díaz, and John W. Miles.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted to Andre Bationo.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted to Guillermo Sotelo, and Luisa Fernanda Fory.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Employee of the Year Award (OEYA), granted to Jairo Rosas Sanclemente.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Team of the Year Award (OTYA), granted to Biosafety Research Team.
  
  
• Special Recognitions to CIAT Staff granted to:
  
  - Adriana Bohórquez, Alba Lucía Chávez, Gerardo Gallego, Fabio Escobar, Roosevelt Escobar, Mauricio Soto, and Joe Tohme - from the CIAT Biotechnology Unit. For the development of educational materials related to biotechnology.
  - Guillermo Castellanos. For the development of a bio-pesticide extract from swinglea, which controls mildew without leaving spots on the flowers.
  

2003

• CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted to Peter Wenzl, Alba Lucía Chávez, Gloria M. Patiño, Jorge E. Mayer, and Idupulapati M. Rao.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted to Daniel G. Debouck.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted to Luis Horacio Franco.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Employee of the Year Award (OEYA), granted to Nidia Reyes Brand.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Team of the Year Award (OTYA), granted to Food & Housing Unit.

2002

• CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted to George S. Mahuku, María Antonia Henriquez, Jaime Muñoz, and Robin Buruchara.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted to John Miles.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted to Jorge Alonso Beltrán.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Employee of the Year Award (OEYA), granted to Alvaro Azcárate.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Team of the Year Award (OTYA), granted to Information Systems Unit.
  

2001

• CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted to Veronique Jorge, Martin A. Fregene, Myriam C. Duque, Merideth Bonierbale, Joe Tohme, and Valerie Verdier.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted to Anthony Bellotti.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted to Roosevelt Escobar.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Employee of the Year Award (OEYA), granted to Alcibíades Ortega.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Team of the Year Award (OTYA), granted to the Team of the Bean Golden Mosaic Virus Marker Assisted Selection Methodology.

2000

• CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted to Francisco Morales, Elaine Ward, Mauricio Castaño, José A. Arroyave, Iván Lozano, and Michael J. Adams.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted to Idupulapati Rao.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted to Ramiro Narváez.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Employee of the Year Award (OEYA), granted to Wilson Gaitán.
  
  
• CIAT-Outstanding Team of the Year Award (OTYA), granted to Spittlebug Biocecology and IPM Team.