Congratulations go to Eliza Gardiner, who has been awarded a Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security, which funds her dissertation research, Impacts of Social Relations on the Privatization of Communal Land and Implications for Food Security in Burkina Faso, and a semester of dissertation writing. The fellowship is administered by Purdue University and supported by USAID and the US Feed the Future program. The project focuses on food security in the context of privatizing land, a global trend supported by international organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank as solutions for problems such as underdevelopment, food security, adaptation to climate change, and land insecurity for small-share farmers. Through a case study of Burkina Faso, her research aims to document and explain how privatization is impacting social relations among farming community members, agro-investors and the state; and conversely, how existing relations of communal land regimes are affecting the outcomes of privatization policies implemented in the name of food security.