| Dr | Xu | Wu | School of Civil Engineering, North Minzu University | China | Climate Change and Water Resources | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Xudong | Wen | Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine | China | Homology of medicine and food | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Yan | Wang | Zhejiang A & F University | China | Analysis of food safety and quality by advanced mass spectrometry techniques | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Yann Emmanuel S. | MIASSI | Université Laval | Canada | Agricultural and Forest Economics | Young Scientist Award |
| Mr | Yashwant | Bisht | Uttaranchal University | India | sustainable ethanol blinding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Yasmeen | Saleem | University of sargodha | Pakistan | Plant tissue culture | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Yéfoungnigui Souleymane | YEO | African Center of Excellence in Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture (CEA-CCBAD) | Côte d'Ivoire | biocontrol/pathogens/west Africa | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Yin | Shen | Chongqing Medical University | China | Wheat | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Yingli | Wang | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | food security and food poverty | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Yong | Hao | East china Jiaotong University | China | Research on nondestructive detection and online sorting of food quality | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Yousef | Abbaspour Gilandeh | University of Mohaghegh Ardabili | Iran | Design of food machines | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Yousry | El-Kassaby | Faculty of Forestry, The university of British Columbia | Canada | Plant Genetics and Breeding | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Dr | Youssef | Bencharki | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) | Morocco | Farming with Alternative pollinators | Young Scientist Award |
| Dr | Yue | Liu | Nantong University | China | Lipid oxidation | Young Scientist Award |
| Prof Dr | Yurelkys | Fernández | Universidad de Guantánamo, Cuba, Ministerio de Educación Superior | Cuba | ingeniería biológica y producción sostenible de cultivos perennes | Excellence in Research |
| Mrs | Yuxin Huo | Huo | The University of Sydney | China | Environmental Soil Science | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Yuyi | Zhou | China Agricultural University | China | Agricultural water-saving cultivation | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Yves Theoneste | Murindangabo | University of South Bohemia | Czech Republic | Prominent use of lactic acid bacteria in soil-plant systems | Best Scholar Award |
| Dr | Zagipa | Sapakhova | Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology | Kazakhstan | Устойчивость к аботическим и биотическим стрессам | Best Scholar Award |
| Mr | Zaki Ahmad | FAIZI | Ondokuz Mayıs University | Turkey | sustainable and organic fruit production | Best Researcher Award |