2020 Laureate AnnouncementDr. Rattan Lal
The 2020 Laureate Announcement was held on June 11, 2020, via webcast. Dr. Rattan Lal was recognized for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that restores and conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change. Over his career spanning more than five decades and four continents, Dr. Lal has... [ View ] |
2021 Laureate AnnouncementDr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
The 2021 Laureate Announcement was held May 11, 2021, via webcast. Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted was recognized for her groundbreaking research, critical insights and landmark innovations in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems. By bringing together interdisciplinary and international collaborators, she drove transformations in aquatic food systems... [ View ] |
2022 Laureate AnnouncementDr. Cynthia Rosenzweig
!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="https://plugins.eventable.com/eventable.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}}(document, "script", "eventable-script"); The 2022 World Food Prize Laureate Announcement was held at the United States Department of State on May 5, 2022. Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig was recognized for her seminal contributions to understanding and predicting the impacts of the interaction between climate and food systems. Through designing and... [ View ] |
2023 Laureate AnnouncementHeidi Kühn
The 2023 World Food Prize Laureate Announcement was hosted at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2023. Heidi Kühn was recognized for her farmer-focused development model that revitalizes farmland, food security, livelihoods and resilience after devastating conflict. For more than two decades, she has shown... [ View ] |
2024 Laureate AnnouncementDr. Geoffrey Hawtin and Dr. Cary Fowler
The 2024 Laureate Announcement was held May 9, 2024, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin and Dr. Cary Fowler were honored for their their extraordinary leadership in preserving and protecting the world’s heritage of crop biodiversity and mobilizing this critical resource to defend against... [ View ] |
