Tag: World Food Prize

Brazil’s Mariangela Hungria Honored at 2025 World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony for Pioneering Soil Microbiology and Sustainable Farming

Stuart Mitchell

Brazilian soil scientist Mariangela Hungria was celebrated as the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate at a high-level ceremony presided over by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who delivered the Laureate Proclamation. The ceremony was also attended by chief guest, H.E. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Vice President of the Republic of Ghana. Her Excellency gave a keynote speech and then joined a fireside chat with 2017 World Food Prize Laureate Hon. Akinwumi Adesina, the former President of the African Development Bank, emphasizing the need for bold investment and shared responsibility to tackle interconnected…

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More Than 150 Nobel And World Food Prize Laureates Issue Unprecedented Wake-Up Call Over Hunger Tipping Point

Stuart Mitchell

More than 150 Nobel and World Food Prize Laureates have made an unprecedented plea for financial and political backing to develop “moonshot” technologies with the greatest chance of averting a hunger catastrophe in the next 25 years. In an open letter signed by 133 winners of the Nobel Prize and World Food Prize, the signatories warned that the world was “not even close” to meeting future food needs, with an estimated 700 million people going hungry today and an additional 1.5 billion people to feed by 2050. The letter predicted…

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