World Food Prize Presented in Des Moines
Brazilian soil scientist Mariangela Hungria is the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate. Hungria received the $500,000 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking work in biological nitrogen fixation.
Articles tagged under: World Food Prize
Vilsack Returns to Iowa
Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will take over as the chief executive officer of the World Food Prize Foundation. Vilsack succeeds another former Iowa governor, Terry Branstad, in the role. Vilsack’s official start date is March 1.
World Food Prize Honorees Named
The World Food Prize will be presented to Global Crop Diversity Trust Founding Director Geoffrey Hawton and the U.S. special envoy for global food security Cary Fowler. Hawton and Fowler are responsible for the development of the Global Seed Vault.…
World Food Prize Laureate Announced
The 2022 World Food Prize will be presented to climatologist and agronomist Cynthia Rosenzweig. Rosenzweig is a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an adjunct senior research scientist at Columbia Climate School. She is…
World Food Prize Winner Announced
The 2019 World Food Prize Laureate is Simon Groot of East-West Seed. Groot’s company trains tens of thousands of farmers each year about vegetable production, moving them from subsistence farming to entrepreneurship. The World Food Prize was founded in 1986…
