The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the winners of its 2012 Innovation Challenges, a competition designed to surface solutions to pressing global challenges such as access to fresh water, food insecurity, and rapid urbanization.
Winners include:
- Mali's Mobido Coulibaly, who came up with the idea for FarmQuest, a reality radio program featuring six to eight young people who compete over a nine- to twelve-month period to create the best new farm
- Amos Winter of the United States, who submitted a product idea for a novel drip emitter that promises to reduce the cost of one-acre drip irrigation systems by 90 percent, putting them within the reach of small-scale subsistence farmers without access to electricity;
- Pedro Markun, who submitted an idea for a data platform that helps Sao Paulo residents get official information regarding their neighborhoods and topics of interest in a timely fashion.
