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To elevate innovations and inspire action to sustainably increase the quality, quantity, and availability of food for all
WORLD FOOD PRIZE
2025 Digital Dialogues
Hunger’s Tipping Point: An Urgent Call to Transform Food and Nutrition Security
Watch the Digital Dialogue featuring a critical discussion that amplifies the global moonshot call to action issued by more than 150 Nobel and World Food Prize Laureates. With 700 million people facing hunger today and the global population projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, this webinar seeks to inspire collective action and innovation to drive a new agricultural revolution. Learn how you can join the movement and support this urgent statement addressing one of the world’s most pressing challenges. Together, we can spark transformative change to achieve a food-secure future.
LATEST NEWS
2023 Digital Dialogue
Stay informed with the latest World Food Prize Foundation news, press releases and global food security updates. From Laureate announcements and international events to breakthroughs in agriculture and nutrition, the Newsroom is your source for timely insights and impactful stories shaping the future of food.
Empowering the Next Generation
Youth are already tackling the most pressing challenges that society faces and doing so in communities across the world. Their voices, intellect, creativity and power should be nurtured and cherished. Dr. Norman Borlaug and John Ruan Sr. believed wholeheartedly in empowering the next generation of trailblazers in food and agriculture. The Foundation is committed to inspiring, engaging and equipping young leaders to overcome global challenges.
Alumni of the World Food Prize Foundation’s youth programs share how their experiences inspired them to join and advocate for youth’s vital role in alleviating global challenges. These champion leaders will share their advice for empowering the next generation to positively shape food systems and improve sustainable, nutritious food security.
Live with the Laureate: A Conversation with Heidi Kühn
Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist Cheryl Jennings will interview 2023 World Food Prize Laureate Heidi Kühn about the work of her nonprofit organization, Roots of Peace, which Kühn founded in 1997 to replace remnants of war and restore the land to agricultural uses with the planting of millions of grapevines and fruit trees.
Kühn and Roots of Peace began building peace through agriculture 25 years ago by partnering with wineries in her home state of California to raise funds to remove landmines in Croatia and replant vineyards and orchards. She has since worked in nine countries, including current projects in Afghanistan and Vietnam, and is exploring starting a program in Ukraine.
Fostering Innovation
A conversation featuring World Food Prize President Ambassador Terry Branstad and three Borlaug Field Award Recipients
Innovations have radically and repeatedly shaped and reshaped food and agricultural systems, revolutionizing the production, processing, storage, distribution and consumption of nutritious food. Join World Food Prize Foundation President Ambassador Terry Branstad and our three most recent Borlaug Field Award Recipients, Salma Sultana, Elliott Dossou-Yovo and Mahalingam Govindaraj, as we hear more about their ongoing research and work across Africa and Southeast Asia. These champions in innovation will share their recommendations for adopting and scaling creative solutions that are more equitable, economically viable and contextually relevant.
LATEST NEWS
2022 Digital Dialogue
Stay informed with the latest World Food Prize Foundation news, press releases and global food security updates. From Laureate announcements and international events to breakthroughs in agriculture and nutrition, the Newsroom is your source for timely insights and impactful stories shaping the future of food.
Live with the Laureate
Following the Laureate Announcement, 2022 World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig joined us for a special conversation on May 26 to discuss her work, passion and outlook. She was joined by Andrew Revkin, a renowned environmental journalist with over 30 years of experience and founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
She Who Provides: Agriculture and Climate Essentials
The shocks and disruption to our food systems and agri-value chains from conflict, climate change and epidemiological disasters, such as the COVID19 pandemic, are rippling throughout the world. These shocks are occurring in the midst of an accelerating climate crisis that is impacting every country on every continent without exception, and our international and local food production systems. Recent events demonstrate that global supply chains are intrinsically interlinked and the impact of individual events quickly cascades around the world at high speed with rising food and energy prices. Whether the shock is a war, flood, famine or drought, women are disproportionately impacted and food insecurity increases. These short-term and long-term consequences must be mitigated with viable solutions to empower women’s production capacity and purchasing power to ensure food security for all.
2021 Digital Dialogue
Stay informed with the latest World Food Prize Foundation news, press releases and global food security updates. From Laureate announcements and international events to breakthroughs in agriculture and nutrition, the Newsroom is your source for timely insights and impactful stories shaping the future of food.
WORLD FOOD PRIZE
Building Forward Better: WFP Laureates Mobilizing for Food Systems Action
World Food Prize Laureates mobilized as a cohort to issue a call for action needed to transform global food systems and work towards a healthier, more sustainable future. A selection of Laureates will discuss the letter and the need to build food systems forward to improve on pre-COVID conditions using the power of collective action. Stay tuned for updates!
2020 Digital Dialogue
Stay informed with the latest World Food Prize Foundation news, press releases and global food security updates. From Laureate announcements and international events to breakthroughs in agriculture and nutrition, the Newsroom is your source for timely insights and impactful stories shaping the future of food.
GLOBAL YOUTH INSTITUTE
Live with the Laureate
Digital Dialogue: Live with the Laureate (immediately following official Laureate Announcement)
June 11, 2020
As previously announced, the official World Food Prize Laureate Announcement will take place on June 11, 2020 at 10:00AM Eastern Time.
Immediately following the Announcement, join us for our third Digital Dialogue, featuring our 2020 World Food Prize Laureate. Tune in with Dr. Gebisa Ejeta, Chair of the World Food Prize Laureate Selection Committee and 2009 World Food Prize Laureate, as we conduct a 30-minute conversation live with the Laureate.
GLOBAL YOUTH INSTITUTE
Improvements for Resilient Food Systems
Defining Medium to Long-term Improvements for Resilient Food Systems
May 14, 2020
This Digital Dialogue addresses critical issues for a resilient global food system. In this session, experts look to the medium to longer-term needs for reshaping the food system, especially as espoused in numerous global calls to action and open letters in circulation. For example, recently world leaders called to design COVID-19 response measures to minimize the risks of the pandemic’s impact on food security, and take action in three key areas: maintaining global food trade, supporting the vulnerable, and investing in sustainable, resilient food systems.
An open letter to the G20 and UN now calls for addressing the inter-related challenges of hunger, malnutrition, climate change and environmental degradation, emphasizing the need for concerted, proactive and collective actions. “As the leaders of the powerful and rich nations try to limit the damage of COVID-19, we must not forget the actions needed now to ensure that there will be food and nutrition for the poorest and the weakest members of the human family,” said Ismail Serageldin, Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria and signatory to the open letter.