FAO-International Year of Millets Photo Contest 2023

Are you an expert or hobbyist photographer, or are millets your sole passion? Do you cultivate, refine, or market millets? Would you be prepared to share your knowledge? Participate in the IYM 2023 Photo Contest to raise awareness of the various advantages of millets, including their commercial potential, diversity, capacity to grow in arid regions, and range of nutrient-rich recipes they can provide.

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.

A worldwide professional panel made up of FAO photographers, agronomists, and communication experts, as well as Magnum Photos Editorial Director Giulietta Palumbo, will study and choose the winning images. The four runners-up will be announced on the FAO social media sites after the professional jury has chosen an overall winner, and the public vote will decide who takes home the second-place prize.

General rules:

• 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. FAO will determine eligibility at its sole discretion.
• 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.
• FAO reserves the right to disqualify submissions that are not consistent with the Organisation’s values and guiding principles.
• FAO also reserves the right to verify the eligibility of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant’s identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with the Contest Rules, including these Rules, Copyright, and Privacy, or who tampers with the entry process.
• FAO will not pay any fees, nor pay any costs relating to, participation in any contest or for the use of any submissions in relation to the contest.
• 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.
• By submitting entries to the contest, entrants agree that personal data, especially name, and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the contest, FAO institutional activities, and any other purposes outlined in these Rules. The data may also be used by FAO in order to verify the entrant’s identity, postal address, and telephone number or to verify the entrant’s eligibility to participate in the contest.
• Nothing in these General Rules or in any rules for the contests, nor any acts performed or statements made in relation to the contests, shall be deemed a waiver, express or implied, of any of the privileges and immunities of FAO.