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The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger. Durban House Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-930754-90-4. LCCN 2006902414 – via Internet Archive. Quinn, Kenneth M. (10 August 2015). "M. S. Swaminathan-Scientist, Hunger Fighter, World Food Prize Laureate" (PDF). Current Science. 109 (3 ...
The Old Downtown Des Moines Library is a historic building in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States that was built in 1903. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and became a contributing property in the Civic Center Historic District in 1988. [ 1 ]
401-714 Washington Ave., the 300 block of Stephens St. and the 200 and 300 blocks of Oak St., Iowa Falls, Iowa: Coordinates: Area: 11 acres (4.5 ha) Architectural style: Italianate Classical Revival: NRHP reference No. 12000889 [1] Added to NRHP: October 31, 2012
Opinion: When a fight born in Iowa brings some of the greatest victories in human history, we owe it attention, writes the Register editorial board. World Food Prize seizes our attention for the ...
The organization also has been focusing more on youth education efforts in which high school students, teachers and food experts study global hunger and food security issues. Events have been held in 24 states as well as The Netherlands and Honduras. Each spring, the World Food Prize awards a $500,000 prize to someone who has helped food security.
The World Food Prize, which some have likened to the Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture, announced its 2013 winners today, including two Americans. The winners are Marc Van Montagu, the founder ...
Le Mars is located in northwest Iowa, which is the last part of the state to be settled. [2] Settlement came with the railroads. The Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad was built through the region in 1869 to 1870. In June 1870, the town was platted, and two years later it won an election to move the county seat from Melbourne.
Two men who were instrumental in the “craziest idea anyone ever had” of creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world's agricultural diversity will be honored as the 2024 World ...