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Number 85 on the 2024 list
Appolinaire Djikeng is a director general from Cameroon, named to the AFN 100 in 2024 for being named a World Food Prize Top Agri-food Pioneer and presenting ILRI's 2030 strategy.
In September 2024 the World Food Prize Foundation named Cameroon-born scientist Appolinaire Djikeng, the first African to lead the International Livestock Research Institute, among 38 people on its inaugural Top Agri-food Pioneers list. In October 2024, as ILRI marked its 50th anniversary, he presented its 2024 to 2030 strategy, which aims to improve the livelihoods of 300 million people in low and middle-income countries through livestock research.