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2024 | Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin & Dr. Cary FowlerUnited Kingdom/Canada and United States Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin and Dr. Cary Fowler received the 2024 World Food Prize for their extraordinary leadership in preserving and protecting the world’s heritage of crop biodiversity and mobilizing this critical resource to defend against threats to global food security... more |
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2023 | Heidi KühnUnited States Heidi Kühn of the United States received the 2023 World Food Prize 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 more than a million people living in war-torn regions around the world a way forward for restoring... more |
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2022 | Dr. Cynthia RosenzweigUnited States Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of the United States received the 2022 World Food Prize for her seminal contributions to understanding and predicting the impacts of the interaction between climate and food systems. Through designing and leading rigorous, collaborative observational and modeling...more |
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2021 | Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh ThilstedTrinidad & Tobago/Denmark Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, native of Trinidad and Tobago and a citizen of Denmark, received the 2021 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking research, critical insights and landmark innovations in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems. By bringing together... more |
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2020 | Dr. Rattan LalIndia/United States Dr. Rattan Lal, native of India and a citizen of the United States, will receive the 2020 World Food Prize for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that restores and conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change... more |
