2026 - Shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize for Titans of Industrial Agriculture (MIT Press, 2025), one of 5 books shortlisted.

2026 - Honorary Geographer, American Association of Geographers

2025 -Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize 

2023 - Elected International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry 

2021-2022 -Killam Research Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts 

2021 - University Professor, University of Waterloo (honorary designation for exceptional scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence) 

2019-2020 - Peter Wall Scholarship, University of British Columbia 

2021 - Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo 

2019 - Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program, Fellow.        

2019 -Short-listed for the British International Studies Association International Political Economy Book Prize (one of four books) for Speculative Harvests (Fernwood, 2018) 

2018 - Innis-Gérin Medal (for contributions to the social sciences), Royal Society  of Canada. 

2018 - Distinguished Scholar Award, Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association. 

2017 - Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo 

2016 - Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 

2015 - Named Broadbent Fellow 

2014 - Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo 

2014 - Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision 2013-14, University of Waterloo 

2013 - Trudeau Fellowship recipient 2013-2016 

2013 - Shortlisted for the Donner Prize for the best book in public policy by a Canadian, for Hunger in the Balance (Cornell University Press, 2012) (one of four books shortlisted) 

2013 - Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability 

2012 - Award for Excellence in Food Studies Research, Canadian Association for Food Studies 

2010 - Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo 

2007 - Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo 

2004 -  Merit Award for Excellence in Research and Service, Trent University 

2002 - Merit Award for Excellence in Research, Trent University 

2000 - Merit Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, Trent University 

1993-1994 - MacArthur Foundation funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Global Security Programme, University of Cambridge 

1989-1990 - Fulbright PhD Research Scholarship for research in Guinea