| Jaar | Prijswinnaars | Land |
| 1980 |
| Hassan Fathy | Egypte |
| Plenty International | Verenigde Staten, Guatemala, Lesotho |
| 1981 |
| Mike Cooley | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| Bill Mollison | Australië |
| Patrick van Rensburg / Education with Production | Botswana, Zuid-Afrika |
| 1982 |
| Eric Dammann / Future in Our Hands | Noorwegen |
| Anwar Fazal | Maleisië |
| Petra Kelly | Duitsland |
| Participatory Institute for Development Alternatives | Sri Lanka |
| George Trevelyan | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| 1983 |
| Leopold Kohr | Oostenrijk |
| Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins / Rocky Mountain Institute | Verenigde Staten |
| Manfred Max-Neef / CEPAUR | Chile |
| High Chief Ibedul Gibbons and the People of Belau | Palau |
| 1984 |
| Imane Khalifeh | Libanon |
| Self-Employed Women's Association / Ela Bhatt | India |
| Winefreda Geonzon / Free Legal Assistance Volunteers' Association (FREE LAVA) | Filipijnen |
| Wangari Maathai / Green Belt Movement | Kenia |
| 1985 |
| Theo van Boven | Nederland |
| Cary Fowler (Rural Advancement Fund International) | Verenigde Staten |
| Pat Mooney (Rural Advancement Fund International) | Canada |
| Lokayan / Rajni Kothari | India |
| Duna Kör | Hongarije |
| 1986 |
| Robert Jungk | Oostenrijk |
| Rosalie Bertell | Canada |
| Alice Stewart | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| International Society for Ecology and Culture / Helena Norberg-Hodge | India |
| Evaristo Nugkuag / AIDESEP | Peru |
| 1987 |
| Johan Galtung | Noorwegen |
| Chipko movement | India |
| Hans-Peter Dürr / Global Challenges Network | Duitsland |
| Institute for Food and Development Policy / Frances Moore Lappé | Verenigde Staten |
| Mordechai Vanunu | Israël |
| 1988 |
| International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims / Dr. Inge Kemp Genefke | Denemarken |
| José Lutzenberger | Brazilië |
| John F. Charlewood Turner | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohammed Idris, Harrison Ngau, the Penan people | Maleisië |
| 1989 |
| Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Union | Japan |
| Melaku Worede | Ethiopië |
| Aklilu Lemma / Legesse Wolde-Yohannes | Ethiopië |
| Survival International | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| 1990 |
| Alice Tepper Marlin / Council on Economic Priorities | Verenigde Staten |
| Bernard Lédéa Ouedraogo | Burkina Faso |
| Felicia Langer | Israël |
| ATCC (Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare) | Colombia |
| 1991 |
| Edward Goldsmith | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| Narmada Bachao Andolan | India |
| Bengt Danielsson & Marie-Thérèse Danielsson | Polynesië |
| Senator Jeton Anjain / the People of Rongelap | Marshalleilanden |
| Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra) / CPT (Commissao Pastoral da Terra) | Brazilië |
| 1992 |
| Finnish Village Action Movement (Kylätoiminta) | Finland |
| Gonoshasthaya Kendra / Zafrullah Chowdhury | Bangladesh |
| Helen Mack | Guatemala |
| John Gofman, USA / Alla Yaroshinskaya | Oekraïne |
| 1993 |
| Arna Mer-Khamis / Care and Learning | Israël |
| Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress / Sithembiso Nyoni | Zimbabwe |
| Vandana Shiva | India |
| Mary en Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone Nation | Noord-Amerika |
| 1994 |
| Astrid Lindgren | Zweden |
| SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All) | Trinidad en Tobago |
| Dr. H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra) | India |
| Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People | Nigeria |
| 1995 |
| András Biró / Hungarian Foundation for Self-Reliance | Hongarije |
| Serb Civic Council | Bosnië en Herzegovina |
| Carmel Budiardjo / TAPOL | Indonesië /Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| Sulak Sivaraksa | Thailand |
| 1996 |
| Herman Daly | Verenigde Staten |
| Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia | Rusland |
| People's Science Movement of Kerala (Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad) | India |
| George Vithoulkas | Griekenland |
| 1997 |
| Joseph Ki-Zerbo | Burkina Faso |
| Jinzaburo Takagi | Japan |
| Mycle Schneider | Frankrijk |
| Michael Succow | Duitsland |
| Cindy Duehring | Verenigde Staten |
| 1998 |
| International Baby Food Action Network | internationaal |
| Samuel Epstein | Verenigde Staten |
| Juan Pablo Orrego | Chili |
| Katarina Kruhonja / Vesna Terselic | Kroatië |
| 1999 |
| Hermann Scheer | Duitsland |
| Juan Garcés | Spanje |
| COAMA (Consolidation of the Amazon Region) | Colombia |
| Grupo de Agricultura Orgánica | Cuba |
| 2000 |
| Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher | Ethiopië |
| Munir | Indonesië |
| Birsel Lemke | Turkije |
| Wes Jackson | Verenigde Staten |
| 2001 |
| José Antonio Abreu | Venezuela |
| Gush Shalom / Rachel en Uri Avnery | Israël |
| Leonardo Boff | Brazilië |
| Trident Ploughshares | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| 2002 |
| Martin Green | Australië |
| Kamenge Youth Centre (Centre Jeunes Kamenge) | Burundi |
| Kvinna Till Kvinna | Zweden |
| Martín Almada | Paraguay |
| 2003 |
| David Lange | Nieuw-Zeeland |
| Walden Bello / Nicanor Perlas | Filipijnen |
| Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice | Zuid-Korea |
| SEKEM / Ibrahim Abouleish | Egypte |
| 2004 |
| Swami Agnivesh / Asghar Ali Engineer | India |
| Memorial Society | Rusland |
| Bianca Jagger | Nicaragua |
| Raúl Montenegro | Argentinië |
| 2005 |
| Maude Barlow en Tony Clarke | Canada |
| Irene Fernandez | Maleisië |
| Roy Sesana en First People of the Kalahari | Botswana |
| Francisco Toledo | Mexico |
| 2006 |
| Daniel Ellsberg | Verenigde Staten |
| Ruth Manorama | India |
| Chico Whitaker | Brazilië |
| International Poetry Festival of Medellín | Colombia |
| 2007 |
| Christopher Weeramantry | Sri Lanka |
| Dekha Ibrahim Abdi | Kenia |
| Percy Schmeiser en Louise Schmeiser | Canada |
| Grameen Shakti | Bangladesh |
| 2008 |
| Krishnammal Jagannathan en Sankaralingam Jagannathan LAFTI | India |
| Amy Goodman | Verenigde Staten |
| Asha Haji Elmi | Somalië |
| Monika Hauser | Duitsland |
| 2009 |
| Catherine Hamlin | Australië |
| René Ngongo | Congo-Kinshasa |
| David Suzuki | Canada |
| Alyn Ware | Nieuw-Zeeland |
| 2010 |
| Nnimmo Bassey | Nigeria |
| Erwin Kräutler | Oostenrijk/Brazilië |
| Shrikrishna Upadhyay | Nepal |
| Physicians for Human Rights | Israël |
| 2011 |
| Huang Ming | Volksrepubliek China |
| Jacqueline Moudeina | Tsjaad |
| GRAIN | internationaal |
| Ina May Gaskin | Verenigde Staten |
| 2012 |
| Campaign Against Arms Trade | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| Gene Sharp | Verenigde Staten |
| Hayrettin Karaca | Turkije |
| Sima Samar | Afghanistan |
| 2013 |
| Paul Walker | Verenigde Staten |
| Raji Sourani | Palestina |
| Denis Mukwege | Democratische Republiek Congo |
| Hans Herren - Biovision Foundation | Zwitserland |
| 2014 |
| Edward Snowden | Verenigde Staten |
| Alan Rusbridger | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
| Asma Jahangir | Pakistan |
| Basil Fernando - AHRC | Hongkong |
| Bill McKibben - 350.org | Verenigde Staten |
| 2015 |
| Tony de Brun en de bevolking van de Marshalleilanden | Marshalleilanden |
| Sheila Watt-Cloutier | Canada |
| Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera | Oeganda |
| Gino Strada | Italië |
| 2016 |
| Syria Civil Defence | Syrië |
| Cumhuriyet | Turkije |
| Svetlana Gannushkina | Rusland |
| Mozn Hassan van NAZR | Egypte |
| 2017 |
| Robert Bilott | Verenigde Staten |
| Colin Gonsalves | India |
| Khadija Ismayilova | Azerbaijan |
| Yetnebersh Nigussie | Ethiopië |
| 2018 |
| Thelma Aldana, Iván Velásquez | Guatemala Colombia |
| Yacouba Sawadogo | Burkina Faso |
| Abdullah al-Hamid, Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani, Walid Abu al-Chair | Saudie Arabië |
| Tony Rinaudo | Australië |
| 2019 |
| Greta Thunberg | Zweden |
| Aminatou Haidar | Westelijke Sahara |
| Davi Kopenawa Yanomami | Brazil |
| Guo Jianmei | China |
| 2020 |
| Nasrin Sotoudeh | Iran |
| Bryan Stevenson | Verenigde Staten |
| Lottie Cunningham Wren | Nicaragua |
| Ales Bialiatski | Wit Rusland |
| 2021 |
Marthe Wandou | Kameroen |
| Vladimir Slivyak | Rusland |
| Freda Huson | Canada |