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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 ...
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 ...
World Food Prize, Frank Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources, Order of the British Empire Geoffrey Hawtin OBE (b. 16 March 1949) is an agricultural scientist and World Food Prize laureate who has served in public institutions working in agricultural biodiversity , plant genetic resources , crop breeding and research management.
John Ruan (February 11, 1914 – February 14, 2010) was the former Chairman and CEO of The Ruan Companies and Chairman Emeritus of the World Food Prize.. At the Ruan Companies, Ruan represented a diversified group of businesses with activities that include transportation, commercial banking, financial services, international trading and real estate development.
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 ...
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 ...
Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame: Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame: Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to the agriculture and food industry [5] [6] Chile: National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technologies : CONICYT: Scientist whose work in the respective field of knowledge makes him worthy of said distinction [7] India ...
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 ]