Call for Nominations: International Year of Millets Photo Contest 2023

Aspects

Your photograph should illustrate one or more of the following aspects:

• Millets can fight hunger and contribute to food security;
• Millets are climate-resilient;
• Millets are tasty and can contribute to a healthy diet;
• Millets offer promising livelihood opportunities for small-scale farmers and small and medium enterprises for post-harvest and processing services;
• Millets are rich in heritage;
• Millets can be used in many innovative ways.

Prize Information

• The first prize winner of the photo contest will be invited to the official closing ceremony of the International Year of Millets in 2024. Travel expenses will be covered for the winner.
• Winners will be announced on the International Year of Millets website at the beginning of December 2023.
• Winners will be promoted on FAO social media, by FAO offices around the world and partner websites.
• All 5 winners will receive a certificate of recognition and surprise gift bag.
• In the event that any of the selected winner(s) of any prize cannot be traced, or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and it will be in the sole discretion of FAO to choose whether to award the prize to another eligible entry.
• When winning photos are published, only the first and family name will be published. No other personal information about the contestants will be published or shared.

Eligibility Criteria

• Participants should be 18 years old or above.
• Each participant can submit up to five photographs by filling in and submitting the registration form. Each photo should be submitted separately by filling in the form.
• Participants must own the copyright and must have taken the photographs themselves. The photos may have been taken within the five-year period prior to the deadline of the contest (e.g. after 1 October 2018).
• Each submitted photograph must have a title and a short description/caption explaining what the photo represents, considering one or more of the aspects mentioned, and where/when the photo was taken (max. 150 words).
• Participants are invited to post their photos on social media accounts, using the IYM hashtag/s: #IYM2023 #YearofMillets and tagging @FAO.
• Photographs must be submitted in .jpeg format. Images should be of high quality (e.g. 300 dpi and 5000 pixels and a file size that does not exceed 2 MB). Both colour and/or black and white images will be accepted.
• The material must not violate or infringe third party’s rights including but not limited to trademark, privacy, publicity or other intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement.
• The submission must not contain dates, texts, brand names, logos or trademarks.
• By participating in the contest, the contestant grants FAO permission to use the image in FAO material and on FAO digital channels for non-commercial purposes. FAO does not own the copyright and authors are free to use the image for other purposes at their choosing.
• The top five photos will be posted by FAO corporate social media accounts and the four runners up will undergo a popular vote to determine the second prize winner.

Ineligible

• FAO employees and their immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter the contests.
• Partners or relations of partner staff of the institutions involved in the launch of contests, and relations of the judging committee are not eligible to compete.
• No logos, URLs, telephone numbers, or calls that solicit directly for monetary donations should be included in any material.
• FAO will not be responsible, and cannot be held liable, for incomplete, lost, late, misdirected or illegible entries or for failure to receive entries due to transmission failures or technical failures of any kind, including, without limitation, malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software, whether originating with sender or for any human error, lost/delayed data transmission, or any other error or malfunction.

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