Borlaug LEAP Alumni come from 29 different countries and have achieved PhD or Master's degrees in many different fields related to agriculture and food security. They are working in national agricultural research institutes, developing country universities, government ministries, non-governmental organizations, international agricultural research institutes, the United Nations, donor agencies, and other development organizations. For the life of the program:
Total Awards Granted: 170
- 37% women (110 Male, 60 Female)
- Degree Program: 143 PhD, 27 MS
CG Centers participating: 15 (all CGIAR research centers)
Africa Rice-WARDA (8), Bioversity International-IPGRI (5), CIAT (24), CIFOR (2), CIMMYT (14), CIP (6), ICARDA (3), ICRISAT (8), IFPRI (18), IITA (30), ILRI (20), IRRI (2), IWMI (20), World Agroforestry Centre-ICRAF (7), World Fish (3)
US Universities participating: 46
Auburn U, Colorado State U (2), Cornell U (27), Emory U, Florida International University, George Mason U (2), Iowa State U (7), Kansas State U, Louisiana State U (2), Michigan State (18), Mississippi State U, Montclair State U, North Carolina State U (2), North Dakota State U, Ohio State U (7), Oklahoma State (7), Penn State (6), Purdue U (9), Tennessee State U, Texas A&M (7), Texas Tech University, Tuskegee U, U of Arizona (2), U of California - Davis (11), U of California - Riverside, U of Connecticut (2), U of Florida (6), U of Georgia (2), U of Hawaii (3), U of Illinois (8), U of Iowa, U of Kentucky, U of Maryland (2), U of Massachusetts – Amherst, U of Minnesota (4), U of Missouri-Columbia, U of Montana, U of Nebraska – Lincoln (2), U of Nevada - Reno, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U of South Carolina, U of Texas-Houston, U of Vermont, U of Wisconsin-Madison, U of Wyoming (3), Virginia Tech (3), Washington State U (3)
Countries represented: 29 (97% of Fellows from sub-Saharan Africa)
Benin (3), Burkina Faso, Burundi/Rwanda, Cameroon (3), Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo/Rwanda, Ethiopia (29), Ghana (16), Ivory Coast (3), Kenya (29), Malawi (5), Mali (3), Mozambique (2), Namibia, Niger, Nigeria (20), Rwanda (2), Sierra Leone (5), South Africa, Tanzania (13), Togo, Uganda (15), Zambia (4), Zimbabwe (5), Thailand, Philippines, Mexico, India, Vietnam