Nominations Now Open
TerraCircle invites nominations for the TerraCircle Microgrant Awards 2026, celebrating outstanding individuals and organisations in Melanesia who are driving locally led innovation, learning and resilience in small-scale farming systems.
TerraCircle particularly welcomes nominations from Indigenous women, and from people working at the grassroots level who may not normally have access to this kind of recognition or support.
Submit nominations via the Award Nomination Form by midnight, Tuesday 30 June 2026 (AEST).
About the TerraCircle Microgrant Awards
The TerraCircle Microgrant Awards honour exceptional local leadership and practice across three key areas vital to food security, resilience and learning in Melanesia. These categories reflect areas where TerraCircle has partnered with communities for over two decades, supporting genuine, locally led action.
Award categories:
Agrobiodiversity
Agrobiodiversity underpins food security, nutrition and climate resilience, yet faces growing global threats. Melanesia — home to diverse crops such as taro, yams and bananas — also boasts rich diversity in forest and introduced food plants. TerraCircle seeks people developing creative, community-driven approaches to safeguard, expand and strengthen agrobiodiversity for a climate-resilient agricultural future.
Climate-adapted agriculture
Climate change is intensifying challenges in Melanesian agriculture, including declining soil fertility, increased pests and diseases and erosion of traditional knowledge. TerraCircle will recognise innovators delivering practical, locally-tailored solutions that help farmers adapt to climate stress and build lasting resilience in small-scale farming.
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Strong monitoring, evaluation and learning is essential to understand what works and why. Yet locally-led monitoring, evaluation and learning remains limited in many agricultural initiatives. TerraCircle welcomes nominations from individuals and organisations advancing field-based research or practical monitoring, evaluation and learning methods that demonstrate and share the impact of agricultural innovations — especially those connected to agrobiodiversity or climate-adapted farming.
Nature and value of the Award
The TerraCircle Microgrant Awards are unrestricted prizes that recognise achievement and empower recipients to continue, strengthen and share their work as they see most beneficial.
For 2026, a total of AU$9000 will be awarded. The Award will allocated at TerraCircle’s discretion based on the quality and diversity of nominations received.