Mottagare av Akademiens Bertebos Prize / Recipients of the Academy’s Bertebos Prize

2026

Professor Curtis Pozniak, University of Saskatchewan, Kanada för hans banbrytande arbete med att ta fram motståndskraftiga, högavkastande vetesorter som är anpassade till hållbara jordbrukssystem i ett föränderligt klimat. Mer om hans forskning finns här.

Professor Curtis Pozniak receives the Bertebos Prize 2026 for groundbreaking work
in breeding resistant, high-yielding wheat varieties adapted to sustainable
agriculture in a changing climate. Please find more on Professor Pozniak’s research.

2024 – From Side Streams to Main Streams – a Shift towards Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems

Gemensamt till professor Ingrid Undeland och docent Mehdi Abdollahi, Mölndal, och Avdelningen för livsmedelsvetenskap, institutionen för Life Sciences, Chalmers tekniska högskola, Göteborg, för deras bidrag till ett än mer hållbart nyttjande av fisk och skaldjur med mindre svinn.

Jointly to Professor Ingrid Undeland and Associate Professor Mehdi Abdollahi, Mölndal, and the Department of Food Science, Department of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, for their contribution to an even more sustainable use of fish and shellfish with less wastage.

2022 – Plant Breeding – The key to food security and improved foods

Professor Rodomiro Ortiz Ríos, Lomma, som med användning av nya molekylära vetenskapliga metoder varit drivande i förädling av grödor av stor betydelse för livsmedelsförsörjningen i Amerika, Afrika och Europa.

Professor Rodomiro Ortiz Ríos, Lomma, who, by using new molecular scientific methods, has been a driving force in the breeding of crops of great importance for food supply in America, Africa and Europe.

2020 – Towards a New Mindset for Epidemic Animal Diseases

Dr. Peter Roeder, Bordon, UK, for his outstanding achievements to develop and improve the control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (TAD) and ”new” diseases around the world. Thanks to his efforts on several continents, he has an outstanding experience in epidemiology, diagnosis and control of TAD. Justification as a pdf below.

2017 – Global Food Security Ensuring sustainable food production at local to global scales

Professor Kenneth G. Cassman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, för hans avgörande betydelse för utveckling av begreppet ekologisk intensifiering av jordbruksproduktion, vilket leder till att gapet mellan potentiell och verklig avkastning minimeras. Hans omfattande vetenskapliga produktion har stor betydelse för tillämpningar inom jordbruket.

Professor Kenneth G. Cassman, for his crucial importance in developing the concept of ecological intensification of agricultural production, leading to the minimization of the gap between potential and actual yields. His extensive scientific output is of great importance for applications in agriculture.

2015 – Additives and enzymes in food: past, present and future from a global and consumer perspective

Professor Jan Delcour, Leuven, Belgium, för hans unika forskning kring livsmedelstillsatser som funnit en rad tillämpningar inom den spannmålsbaserade livsmedelsindustrin.
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Professor Youling L. Xiong, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, för hans forskning kring kemiska, fysikaliska och biokemiska mekanismer som reglerar hur proteiner och peptider fungerar i livsmedel och speciellt i processade produkter med kött eller fisk.

Professor Jan Delcour, Leuven, Belgium, for his unique research on food additives.
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Professor Youling L. Xiong, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, mainly for his research on the mechanisms regulating proteins and peptides in processed food.

2013 – New Ruralities – changing agendas for research and practice

Professor Philip Lowe, for his rural studies with significant contributions in sustainable rural development and land use management.

2011 – How can we ensure sustainable cattle production systems for future generations?

Professor Karen Beauchemin,  Alberta, Canada, for her pioneering research into reducing the environmental impact of ruminant animals without having a negative impact on productivity and animal husbandry.

2009 – Food security and the Futures of Farms: 2020 and towards 2050

Dr. Joachim von Braun, Washington DC, USA, for his outstanding work in development economics and as effective head of several development research institutions focusing on food, agriculture and rural poverty. Dr. von Braun is currently director of the International Food Policy Research Institute, which has formulated successful new policy initiatives relating to trade and aid, famine and health and nutrition. He is active as a member of many scientific advisory boards dealing with agriculture in developing countries.

2007 – Development of methods for DNA transformation in rice and other plants

Professor Ingo Potrykus, Magden, Switzerland, who has been a leading scientist in the development of methods for DNA transformation in plants. Through the new techniques, important hereditary characters, for instance disease resistance and improved quality, have been added to crops such as wheat, rice and cassava. In the particular case of ‘Golden Rice’ Prof. Potrykus and his team has engineered a rice variety to produce b-caroten. b-caroten is a precursor to vitamin A – an important ingredient to prevent blindness. Lack of vitamin A causes today blindness to numerous children in developing countries. Professor Potrykus has been working tirelessly to resolve all the patent and legal obstacles that for several years have prevented the free use of ‘Golden Rice’ by many rice breeding institutes and small-scale farmers.

2005 – Water dynamics in agriculture and forestry

Professor Piotr Kowalik, Gdánsk, Poland, for outstanding multidisciplinary research in water dynamics in agriculture and forestry and for pioneering development and implementation of waste water treatment methods in constructed wetlands and in energy crops production systems.

2003 – Soil biology and modelling of responses of agro ecosystems to their environment

Professor Erik Steen Jensen, Den Kgl. Veterinaer- og Landbohöjskole (KVL), Taastrup, Danmark, för hans forskning kring växtproduktion, markbiologi och jordbrukets miljöproblem. Prof. Erik Steen Jensen ser biologisk mångfald som ett medel att effektivisera kväveutnyttjandet i det ekologiska jordbruket.
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Professor John R. Porter, Den Kgl. Veterinaer- og Landbohöjskole (KVL), Taastrup, Danmark, för hans tvärvetenskapliga forskning kring datasimuleringsmodeller för bättre förståelse av förhållandet mellan grödor och deras miljö, speciellt klimatförändringars inverkan på odlingsgrödor och energigrödor.

Professor Erik Steen Jensen, The Royal Veterinaer- og Landbohöjskole (KVL), Taastrup, Denmark, for his research on plant production, soil biology and agricultural environmental problems. Prof. Erik Steen Jensen sees biological diversity as a means to make nitrogen utilization more efficient in organic farming.
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Professor John R. Porter, The Royal Veterinaer- og Landbohöjskole (KVL), Taastrup, Denmark, for his interdisciplinary research on computer simulation models for better understanding of the relationship between crops and their environment, especially the impact of climate change on crops and energy crops.

2001 – Crop and Forest biotechnology

Professor Donald Grierson, University of Nottingham, England, för hans banbrytande forskning för att bättre förstå växternas mognadsförlopp och för att ha identifierat de gener som är aktiva i etylensyntesen samt för hans insatser för att utveckla tekniken att förstärka och utsläcka enskilda gener.

Professor Donald Grierson, University of Nottingham, England, for his pioneering research to better understand the maturation process of plants and for having identified the genes active in ethylene synthesis and for his efforts in developing the technology to amplify and silence individual genes.

1999 – Antibiotics in food and feed

Professor Wolfgang Witte, Robert Koch Institut, Wernigerode, Tyskland, för pionjärforskning kring de risker för djur- och humanhälsa samt för miljön, som följer med olämpligt användande av foderantibiotika (for pioneering, scientific tracing of risks for animal and human health as well as for the environment associated with the use of antibiotic feed additives), inom området Antibiotic Resistance with Emphasis on Animal-Human Transfer, ett område som redan idag och med säkerhet i ännu större utsträckning i en nära framtid, kommer att få mycket stor aktualitet.

Professor Wolfgang Witte, Robert Koch Institut, Wernigerode, Germany, for pioneering, scientific tracing of risks for animal and human health as well as for the environment associated with the use of antibiotic feed additives, in the area of Antibiotic Resistance with Emphasis on Animal-Human Transfer, an area that already today and with certainty to an even greater extent in the near future, will gain great relevance.

1997 – Preservation of animal semen

Professor Christopher Polge, Cambridge, England, for his exceptional scientific contribution to the methods within animal reproduction especially for the bull semen preservation and its use in genetic selection.