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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 ...
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 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.
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.
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]
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 ...
The World Food Prize Committee noted that Bouis “persevered relentlessly in the face of skepticism and opposition from public health experts and crop breeders as he pursued his vision that agriculture could provide more nutritious staple crops, which could reduce the micronutrient deficiencies that can cause malnutrition, blindness, disease ...