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Registration Now Open for the 20th Annual Iowa Hunger Summit
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Youth Voices: Turning Piont
By Khamani Thomas2024 Borlaug-Ruan International Intern This past week has been full of learning and experiences previously unknown to me. As I reach the halfway mark of my internship I start to understand a little more about what I am here to accomplish and what I can do to educate those around me when I…
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Youth Voices: What am I doing here? Researching purple lottery tickets.
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By Lexi Bodlak2024 Borlaug-Ruan International Intern When I was little, one of my favorite things to do while riding in the car was to create wildly outlandish stories about the people I could see outside my window. That lady with a baseball cap and a poodle? She had just returned from the international poodle breeders…
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Registration now open for the World Food Prize Foundation’s 2022 Borlaug Dialogue
Early bird discounts are available through August 15. Registration is open for the World Food Prize Foundation’s 2022 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue, which will address overcoming pervasive global food-system shocks. The Borlaug Dialogue will take place virtually and in person on October 18-20 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. This year’s…
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2022 Borlaug Field Award Ceremony
Mahalingam Govindaraj Mahalingam Govindaraj, Senior Scientist for Crop Development with HarvestPlus at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, received the 2022 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by The Rockefeller Foundation. He is recognized for his outstanding leadership in mainstreaming biofortified crops, particularly pearl millet, in India and Africa. For more than a…
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World Food Prize Decks the Halls for Holiday Open Houses
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Dec. 10, 2014) Des Moines, Iowa — The community is invited to visit the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates on Saturday, Dec. 13, and Saturday, Dec. 20, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. during free Holiday Open Houses. Visitors can experience the majestic sound of the Grace Church Ensemble singing holiday music in this downtown architectural gem,…
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1996 World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Hank Beachell passes away at 100
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Dr. Henry M. Beachell1906-2006 A Message from Ambassador Kenneth Quinn,President of the World Food Prize: It is with great sadness that I advise you that Dr. Hank Beachell, the 1996 World Food Prize Laureate, passed away this morning at his home in Alvin, Texas. Dr. Beachell was 100 years old. His funeral will be Tuesday,…