| Mrs | ESTEFANIA | AGUIRRE-ZAPATA | Instituto de Automática, Universidad Nacional de San Juan - CONICET | Argentina | Crop protection | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Luis Esteban | Orozco | Instituto de Evaluación Tecnológica en Salud - IETS | Colombia | Economic evaluation in health | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mauricio | Aguilar-Garavito | Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt | Colombia | Restoration Ecology | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ana B | Crujeiras | Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS)/ Servicio Gallego de Salud (SERGAS) | Spain | Nutriepigenética | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Eduardo | Pereira Cabral Gomes | Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais | Brazil | Agricultura povos tradicionais | Best Paper Award |
| Prof Dr | Dionei | Lima Santos | Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará, Campus Conceição do Araguaia | Brazil | Agricultural water management | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | Liane | Jantsch | Instituto Federal de Enologia e Viticultura | Brazil | Gastronomia/ Gastronomia Local/Enologia/Vinhos | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Francisca | Souza | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas na Amazônia - Coordenação Sociedade Ambiente e Saúde | Brazil | Ciência de Alimentos | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Elisabeth | Huber-Sannwald | Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C. | Mexico | Desarrollo sostenible en zonas áridas vía investigación participativa | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mara | Grohs | Instituto Rio Grandense do Arroz | Brazil | crop diversification in lowlands | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Paula | Paredes | Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa | Portugal | Necessidades de água e de rega das culturas | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ileana | Frasier | INTA | Argentina | Sustainable management practices | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Cristina | Zalazar | INTEC (UNL-CONICET) | Argentina | Biorremediación de aguas contaminadas con agroquímicos | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | ARSHIED | MANZOOR | Integral University Lucknow | India | Food preservation | Best Scholar Award |
| Dr | Youssef | Bencharki | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) | Morocco | Farming with Alternative pollinators | Young Scientist Award |
| Dr | Michael | Kinyua | International Centre for Tropical Agriculture | Kenya | Cropping system innovations | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Prasad | Kamdi | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics | India | Developing climate change agro-adaptation strategies and Efficient land water management practices for improving soil water content | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | William | Adzawla | International Fertilizer Development Center | Ghana | Sustainable crop production and farmers livelihood | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Paterne | Agre | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture | Nigeria | Molecular breeding and bioinformatics | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Adeyinka | Adewumi | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture | Nigeria | Plant Breeding and Genetics | Best Researcher Award |