2016 Laureate Announcement Media Coverage
June 28, 2016 U.S. Department of State
(Please Note: This is simply a sampling of the media coverage for this event; we will continue to update this list.)
Official Remarks
Top Tier
- New York Times - “Sweet Potato Experts Win World Food Prize” June 28, 2016. http://news.trust.org/item/20160628194502-vcc06
- Washington Post - “Developers of fortified food staple awarded World Food Prize” June 28, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/developers-of-fortified-food-staple-awarded-world-food-prize/2016/06/28/879c4f78-3d44-11e6-9e16-4cf01a41decb_story.html
- National Geographic - “World Food Prize Winners: Why Sweet Potato Color Matters” by Tracie McMillan. June 28, 2016. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2016/06/world-food-prize--why-sweet-potato-color-matters/
- NPR - “How The Humble Orange Sweet Potato Won Researchers The World Food Prize” by Dan Charles. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/28/483905280/how-the-humble-orange-sweet-potato-won-researchers-the-world-food-prize
- ABC News - “Developers of Fortified Food Staple Awarded World Food Prize” June 28, 2016. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/developers-fortified-food-staple-awarded-world-food-prize-40187916
- Reuters USA - “Sweet Potato Experts Win World Food Prize” by Isma’il Kushkush. June 28, 2016. http://news.trust.org/item/20160628194502-vcc06
- Daily Mail - “Developers of fortified food staple awarded World Food Prize” June 28, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/developers-of-fortified-food-staple-awarded-world-food-prize/2016/06/28/879c4f78-3d44-11e6-9e16-4cf01a41decb_story.html
- CNBC Africa - “Sweet Potato Experts Win World Food Prize” June 28, 2016. http://news.trust.org/item/20160628194502-vcc06
- Des Moines Register - “10 Photos: 2016 World Food Prize Winners Announced” June 28, 2016. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gallery/money/2016/06/28/10-photos-2016-world-food-prize-winners-announced/86466876/
- Des Moines Register - “World Food Prize Winners Turn Food into Medicine” June 28, 2016. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2016/06/28/thursday-june-30-2016-presto-86457980-newsgate-finney-odonnells-summary-how-family-golf-tournament-started-22-years-ago-became-charitable-event-raised-more-than-1-million-local-charities-art-submitted-photos-sig-saturday-july-2-2016-presto-86457984/86427428/
Iowa
- “World Food Prize goes to 4 who specialize in fortifying crops” by Pat Curtis. Radio Iowa, June 29, 2016.
http://www.radioiowa.com/2016/06/29/world-food-prize-goes-to-4-who-specialize-in-fortifying-crops/ - “How the World Food Prize winners crops help those in need” Iowa City Press-Citizen, June 28, 2016.
http://www.press-citizen.com/videos/news/2016/06/28/86470346/ - “World Food Prize winners just announced Tuesday morning” KCCI June 28, 2016.
http://www.kcci.com/news/world-food-prize-winners-just-announced-tuesday-morning/40258740
National
- “Developers of Fortified Food Staple Awarded World Food Prize” Seattle Times, June 28, 2016.
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/developers-of-fortified-food-staple-awarded-world-food-prize/ - “Developers of Fortified Food Staple Awarded World Food Prize” Yahoo, June 28, 2016.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/developers-fortified-food-staple-awarded-world-food-prize-152301507.html - “Biofortification Pioneers win 2016 World Food Prize” Agweek, June 28, 2016.
http://www.agweek.com/news/nation-and-world/4063673-biofortification-pioneers-win-2016-world-food-prize - “World Food Prize Laureate Announced Today” Farm Futures, June 28, 2016.
http://farmfutures.com/story-world-food-prize-laureate-announced-today-0-143225 - “Four International Scientists Win 30th Annual World Food Prize” US Department of State, June 28, 2016.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2016/06/259133.htm - “Researchers Earn World Food Prize for Combating Malnutrition” by Pamela Dockins.Voices of America, June 28, 2016.
http://www.voanews.com/content/researchers-earn-world-food-prize-for-combating-malnutrition/3395376.html - “World Food Prize for letting food be thy medicine” by Luigi Guarino. Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog, June 29, 2016.
http://agro.biodiver.se/2016/06/world-food-prize-for-letting-food-be-thy-medicine/ - “Fact Sheets: World Food Prize and 2016 World Food Prize Winners” Newsroom America, June 28, 2016.
http://newsroomamerica.com/story/581834.html - “Four biofortified food scientists share 2016 World Food Prize” by Jim Webster. Agri-Pulse, June 28, 2016.
http://www.agri-pulse.com/Four-biofortified-food-scientists-share-2016-World-Foo-Prize-06282016.asp - “2016 World Food Prize Winners Announced” by Jessie Scott. Agriculture.com, June 28, 2016.
http://www.agriculture.com/news/crops/2016-world-food-prize-winners-announced - “How The Humble Orange Sweet Potato Won Researchers The World Food Prize” by Dan Charles. Texas Public Radio, June 28, 2016.
http://tpr.org/post/how-humble-orange-sweet-potato-won-researchers-world-food-prize#stream/0 - “Four International Scientists Win 30th Annual World Food Prize” Imperial Valley News, June 28, 2016. http://imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/8-news/9787-four-international-scientists-win-30th-annual-world-food-prize.html
- “Four win World Food Prize” Business Record, June 28, 2016.
http://www.businessrecord.com/Content/Default/-All-Latest-News/Article/Four-win-World-Food-Prize/-3/248/73736 - “Alumna Jan Low named a World Food Prize laureate” by Matt Hayes. Cornell Chronicle, June 29, 2016.
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/06/alumna-jan-low-named-world-food-prize-laureate - Sweet potato experts win World Food Prize” Yahoo, June 28, 2016.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sweet-potato-experts-win-world-food-prize-194802073--sector.html - “Ugandan Wins World Food Prize for Combating Malnutrition” Uganda Radio Network, June 29, 2016.
http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=87362 - “World Food Prize and 2016 World Food Prize Winners” Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, US Department of State, June 28, 2016.
http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/fs/2016/259131.htm - “Developers of fortified food staple awarded World Food Prize” by Davit Pitt. Associated Press, June 28, 2016.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/acfd4819da984667b65497298653d401/developers-fortified-food-staple-awarded-world-food-prize - “Howarth Bouis Wins World Food Prize” International Food Policy Research Institute, June 28, 2016.
https://www.ifpri.org/news-release/howarth-bouis-wins-world-food-prize - “Sweet potato experts win World Food Prize” 740 The Fan, June 28, 2016.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sweet-potato-experts-win-world-food-prize-194802073--sector.html - “How the humble orange sweet potato won researchers the world food prize” WLRH, June 28, 2016.
http://www.wlrh.org/NPR-News/how-humble-orange-sweet-potato-won-researchers-world-food-prize - “2016 World Food Prize Given to Pioneers of Biofortification” International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, June 28, 2016.
http://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=14538 - “World Food Prize Awarded to Researchers Who Developed Vitamin-A Enriched Sweet Potato” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, June 29, 2016.
http://kff.org/news-summary/world-food-prize-awarded-to-researchers-who-developed-vitamin-a-enriched-sweet-potato/ - “4 named World Food Prize Laureates” Farm Futures, June 28, 2016.
http://farmfutures.com/story-4-named-world-food-prize-laureates-0-143266 - "African Scientists, U.S. Economists Share 2016 World Food Prize” by Christopher Connell. Share America, June 28, 2016.
https://share.america.gov/scientists-economists-share-2016-world-food-prize/ - “UA Alumna Maria Andrade Receives 2016 World Food Prize” University of Arizona News, June 29, 2016.
https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/ua-alumna-maria-andrade-receives-2016-world-food-prize - “World Food Prize winners are ‘biofortification pioneers’” by Rick Keller, AgProfessional, June 29, 2016.
http://www.agprofessional.com/news/world-food-prize-winners-are-biofortification-pioneers - “UA alumna Maria Andrade is World Food Prize laureate” by Cary Blake, Western Farm Press, June 30, 2016.
http://westernfarmpress.com/miscellaneous/ua-alumna-maria-andrade-world-food-prize-laureate - “New sweet potato could alleviate hunger for ‘millions’” by Lacy Cooke, Inhabit, July 3, 2016.
http://inhabitat.com/new-sweet-potato-could-alleviate-hunger-for-millions/ - “Why the Humble Sweet Potato Won the World Food Prize” by Jason Daley, Smithsonian.com, July 5, 2016.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-humble-sweet-potato-won-world-food-prize-180959656/?no-ist - “Vitamin crops earn World Food Prize “ Agri-View, July 11, 2016.
http://www.agriview.com/news/business/vitamin-crops-earn-world-food-prize/article_9e1f8d6c-8f12-5150-8d5a-dea939230455.html
International
- “World Food Prize Winners Turn Food into Medicine” by the Des Moines Register. W3 Live News, June 28, 2016.
http://www.w3livenews.com/2016/06/29/World-Food-Prize-winners-turn-food-into-medicine/2951576 - “Sweet Potato Experts Win World Food Prize” by Isma’il Kushkush. Reuters Africa, June 28, 2016.
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN0ZF0IG - “Sweet Potato Experts Win World Food Prize” Channel News Asia, June 29, 2016.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/health/sweet-potato-experts-win/2913606.html - “CIP sweetpotato scientists awarded World Food Prize for combatting vitamin A deficiency” EurekAlert, June 28, 2016.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/ipc-css062716.php - “#FoodPrize16 Awards Announced” by Kelly Marshall, June 28, 2016.
http://agwired.com/2016/06/28/foodprize16-awards-announced/ - “Researchers Earn World Food Prize for Combating Malnutrition” Tolerance.ca, June 28, 2016.
http://www.tolerance.ca/ArticleExt.aspx?ID=313998&L=en - “Biofortification Wins 2016 World Food Prize” by Adelina Vasileva. Eat Globe, June 28, 2016.
http://www.eatglobe.com/news/food/2144-biofortification-wins-2016-world-food-prize.html - “CIP sweetpotato scientists awarded the prestigious World Food Prize” International Potato Center, June 28, 2016.
http://cipotato.org/press-room/blog/cip-sweetpotato-scientists-awarded-prestigious-world-food-prize/ - “HarvestPlus World Food Prize laureates benefit more than 10 million people” by Julie Mollins, CIMMYT, June 30, 2016.
http://www.cimmyt.org/harvestplus-world-food-prize-laureates-benefit-more-than-10-million-people/ - “Four get World Food Prize” Daily Star, June 30, 2016.
http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/four-get-world-food-prize-1247857 - “World Food Prize to be awarded to 4 people for work on biofortification” Food & Beverage News, July 2, 2016.
http://www.fnbnews.com/Top-News/world-food-prize-to-be-awarded-to-4-people-for-work-on-biofortification-3916 - “Ugandan scientist among $250,000 World Food Prize winners” Geeska Afrika Online, June 30, 2016.
http://www.geeskaafrika.com/20527/ugandan-scientist-among-250000-world-food-prize-winners/ - “World Food Prize 2016 awarded to DFID-funded scientists” Gov.uk, July 4, 2016.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/world-food-prize-2016-awarded-to-dfid-funded-scientists