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	About the World Food Prize
		The World Food Prize is the foremost international award recognizing -- without regard to race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs -- the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
		The World Food Prize is sponsored by businessman and philanthropist John Ruan and is located in Des Moines, Iowa.
		The World Food Prize Youth Institute was established in 1994 by The World Food Prize Foundation.
	www.worldfoodprize.org /about/about.htm (426 words)

	World Food Programme Welcomes Food Prize Award to Former Head
		James T. Morris, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, yesterday welcomed the selection of Catherine Bertini, his predecessor at WFP, as the winner of the 2003 World Food Prize, saying her contributions to the organization had been key to saving the lives of millions of people, it was announced in Rome.
		Bertini transformed the World Food Programme (WFP) from primarily a development assistance organization into the largest and most responsive humanitarian relief organization in the world, delivering life-sustaining food aid to over 700 million people in more than 100 countries during her term.
		The $250,000 World Food Prize, referred to informally by world leaders as the "Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture" is the foremost international award inspiring and recognizing breakthrough achievements that increase the quality, quantity, and availability of food in the world.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/07/18-07-03/World.htm (394 words)

	World Food Prize
		The $250,000 World Food Prize is awarded each October in Des Moines, Iowa, (Dr. Borlaug's home state) USA to recognize the significant achievements of individuals who have reduced poverty, hunger, and malnutrition by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world.
		The Prize was established in 1986 and, in 1990, Des Moines Businessman and Philanthropist John Ruan assumed its sponsorship, providing a generous endowment and moving The World Food Prize Foundation to Des Moines.
		Food, along with sanitary water and shelter, are the most vital of human needs; and the lack of food is a major barrier in achieving other human rights.
	www.ajfand.net /issueIIIfiles/wfplaureates.htm (979 words)

	Food For Thought: September 5, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The World Food Prize, created in 1986 by Dr. Norman E. Borlong, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in agriculture, is the foremost international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
		The WFP is drawing on its ongoing development projects in Central America in order to deliver urgently-needed food aid, but the current supply is not sufficient to cover all the areas affected by the drought and the supply is expected to run out in the next several weeks.
		WFP has launched an international plea for 4,500 tons of food aid specifically for El Salvador and organizations like Oxfam America, a Share Our Strength international grant recipient, are working with local partners on the ground providing relief to the drought affected regions.
	www.strength.org /understand/sept5-01.htm (761 words)

	Alum shares World Food Prize
		For the sixth time in its 19-year history, the World Food Prize has been won by a Cornellian.
		McClung, a retired agronomist from the IRI Research Institute, Rockefeller Foundation and Winrock International, was cited for his role in showing that the Cerrado -- a region of vast, once infertile land stretching across Brazil -- was severely depleted in nutrients and had aluminum toxicity.
		Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman E. Borlaug, a father of the green revolution and a former A.D. White Professor, established the World Food Prize in 1986.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/June06/World.Food.prize.ssl.html (316 words)

	Association News - Millennium World Food Prize Laureates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In a world where nearly one-seventh of the total population (well over 800 million people) is chronically malnourished, the significance of QPM cannot be overstated.
		Villegas and Vasal are being recognized by the World Food Prize.
		The World Food Prize was conceived by Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
	www.worldfoodscience.org /cms?pid=1000755&printable=1 (470 words)

	Empres Transboundary Animal Diseases Bulletin No. 11 - RINDERPEST
		The World Food Prize was first awarded in 1987 and recognizes people who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
		The World Food Prize is the foremost international award recognizing - regardless of race, religion, nationality or political beliefs - the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
		The World Food Prize is sponsored by businessman and philanthropist John Ruan and is administered by The World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
	www.fao.org /docrep/X3444e/x3444e05.htm (2978 words)

	Program Discussion 3 - World Food Day USA
		Food aid from the United States, Europe and so on is absolutely essential for that 10% of those 850 million hungry people around who are acutely hungry, who are starving and usually related to wars or natural disasters.
		This is not going to affect American farm exports because the demand for food from the world from countries that can’t afford to buy the food, such as China, is mushrooming so that you won’t suffer because of this.
		We want America to continue being the breadbasket of the world, the feeder of the world, but we want most of that to be food that is purchased by other countries that can afford to do it and give a chance for the poor countries to increase their own local food production.
	www.worldfooddayusa.org /?id=16662 (1593 words)

	News
		Khush and his mentor, Dr. Henry Beachell, were recipients of the World Food Prize for their work in enlarging and improving the world supply of rice.
		The World Food Prize was founded by Dr. Norman Borlaug, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, and its headquarters are in
		The World Food Prize is given to individuals who have impacted the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
	www.wmpenn.edu /Home/News/tabid/205/ctl/Details/mid/542/ItemID/7/Default.aspx (352 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Scientists from China, Sierra Leone Win World Food Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Announcement of the prize, given annually since 1987 by the World Food Prize Foundation, came at a State Department gathering of diplomats, leaders of non-governmental aid organizations and government officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell.
		He said the Bush administration is "strongly committed" to continuing America's status as the world's leading supplier of emergency food aid and has actively embraced the 1996 World Food Summit goal of reducing by half the number of chronically hungry people in the world by 2015.
		The World Food Prizes are funded by American philanthropist and businessman John Ruan, with winners chosen by a panel headed by American scientist and Nobel Peace Laureate Norman Borlaug.
	en.epochtimes.com /news/4-3-30/20701.html (478 words)

	World Food Prize News
		The World Food Prize honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
		Often called âThe Nobel Prize of Food and Agriculture,â Yunus was given the prize for providing loans to hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshâs poor to engage in subsistence farming.
		Jimmy Carter, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and a member of the World Food Prize Council of Advisors, and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and World Food Prize Founder Dr. Norman E. Borlaug were on stage with Dr. Yunus as he received the World Food Prize in the Iowa State Historical Building.
	www.worldfoodprize.org /rss/newsfeed.xml (779 words)

	"Father of hybrid rice" wins world food prize
		World Food Prize President Kenneth Quinn praised both scientists for their "breakthrough scientific achievements, which have significantly increased food security for millions of people from Asia to Africa."
		U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf said it was fitting that rice experts are being awarded the food prize in 2004, the same year dedicated by the United Nations as the International Year of Rice.
		The prize was created in 1986 by Dr. Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in developing new technologies for feeding the hungry.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-03/30/content_319209.htm (407 words)

	Announcement of the 2004 World Food Prize Laureates
		The World Food Prize recognizes individuals who have made remarkable achievements in improving the quality, quantity and availability of food throughout the world.
		Given the importance the President has placed on reducing hunger and poverty around the world, it is particularly appropriate that we at the State Department and in the United States government should host this ceremony.
		It is these types of innovations that The World Food Prize seeks to recognize, and that the United States wants to encourage.
	www.state.gov /e/rls/rm/2004/30941.htm (406 words)

	Rice Breeders' World Food Prize Underscores Future Hope - Center for Global Food Issues (CGFI)
		Yet, on April 2, the flossy ballroom was the setting to announce this year's World Food Prize; and, the dignitaries and experts gathered were helping channel concern, money, and expertise from the overfed First World to the still-hungry Third World.
		The Nobel prizes, the World Food Prize, and the dignitaries all help to strengthen a gigantic network that ties together the experiences of millions of farmers, rich and poor; hundreds of thousands of scientists all over the globe; and billions of dollars in research funding, mostly from affluent national governments and the World Bank.
		They claim that the world would be better off today with half as much food, grown organically, from traditional seeds, with low-yield farming systems.
	www.cgfi.org /materials/articles/2004/apr_06_04.htm (562 words)

	Association News - Plowright Wins 1999 World Food Prize
		In October, 1999, the 1999 World food Prize was awarded to British veterinarian, Dr. Walter Plowright.
		Plowright was awarded the prize for his development of a rinderpest vaccine.
		This animal disease dates back 16 centuries and is considered to be one of the deadliest animal diseases in recorded history, causing losses of millions of cattle, widespread famine, significant economic losses, and in some cases, war.
	www.worldfoodscience.org /cms/?pid=1000784 (155 words)

	HM the King awarded Borlaug Medallion for humanitarian efforts
		World Food Prize officials tout the more than 2,000 projects HM the King has started in Thailand to improve agriculture, child health care and education.
		World Food Prize officials told AP that the medallion is meant to honor international figures who have helped reduce hunger and poverty but would not normally be considered for the World Food Prize.
		The medallion was named after Food Prize founder Norman Borlaug, an Iowan who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for a wheat variety that helped to fight starvation in India and Pakistan in the 1960s.
	www.nationmultimedia.com /2006/10/23/headlines/headlines_30016912.php (334 words)

	2006 World Food Prize recipients to be recognized at soils congress
		The $250,000 World Food Prize will be presented this October in a ceremony at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.
		The World Food Prize will be formally presented at a ceremony on October 19, 2006 at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.
		The World Congress of Soil Science is held from July 9-15 in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and feature presentations by soil scientists from around the world on such topics as climate change, soils and health, urban planning, crop production, hazardous waste, and more.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-06/asoa-2wf062306.php (686 words)

	Remarks at World Food Prize Ceremony
		I especially want to thank the organizers of The World Food Prize, especially John Ruan, Iowa businessman and philanthropist, for bringing recognition to achievements in improving the quality, quantity and availability of food in the world and its importance in reducing hunger.
		But the World Food Prize may be the only one that recognizes international heroes whose work is largely unknown, but saves the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
		International cooperation is the hallmark of the World Food Prize and its laureates who have been the front line warriors in an agriculture revolution that has helped feed the world.
	www.state.gov /e/rls/rm/2006/73307.htm (1520 words)

	Dr. Modadugu V. Gupta awarded the World Food Prize for 2005 in Des Moines on October 13, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dr. Modadugu V. Gupta was awarded the prestigious World Food Prize for 2005 at a glittering ceremony held at the majestic Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines on October 13, 2005.
		The annual award was created by Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug in 1986 for outstanding achievements in food and agriculture aimed at reducing hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty, and is funded by the prominent Ohio philanthropist, John Ruan.
		The award, which is widely regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the field of food and agriculture, carries a proclamation by the Governor of Ohio and a citation, an original sculpture created by Saul Bass and a cash award of $ 250,000.
	www.indianembassy.org /press_release/2005/Oct/21.htm (393 words)

	CIMMYT. Fellows Program, World Food Prize Laureates Highlight Borlaug's 90th
		World Food Prize Laureate Jones, formerly a rice breeder at WARDA—the Africa Rice Center—in Côte d’Ivoire, successfully made fertile inter-specific African and Asian rice crosses that combined the best characteristics of both gene pools.
		In order to meet the 1996 World Food Summit goal of cutting in half the number of chronically hungry people by 2015, Powell said the international community must reduce the number of undernourished people by an average rate of 22 million people per year.
		Of the more than 800 million severely malnourished people in the world, 80 percent are women and children, he said, but famine is entirely preventable in the 21st century.
	www.cimmyt.org /english/webp/support/news/borlaug_90.htm (947 words)

	World Food Prize will honor a dramatic transformation - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This year's World Food Prize goes to three scientists who helped transform the infertile Brazilian Cerrado, high plains covering an area the size of Western Europe, into highly productive cropland.
		It was founded by Norman Borlaug, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 and known as the father of the Green Revolution, a series of agricultural advances that began in the 1940s.
		It is given for achievements that significantly increase the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-10-16-world-food-prize_x.htm (649 words)

	The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World
		Yunus won the 1994 World Food Prize for his innovations in microcredit with the Grameen Bank...
		The 2006 World Food Prize was awarded to Mr.
		In 1990, Des Moines businessman and philanthropist John Ruan assumed sponsorship of The Prize and established The World Food Prize Foundation, located in Des Moines, Iowa.
	www.worldfoodprize.org (372 words)

	World Food Prize Partnership
		With the support of Humanities Iowa, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, a native of Cresco Iowa and the recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, gave the inaugural "Governor's Lecture" at The World Food Prize International Symposium on October 14, 2004.
		Swaminathan, the first World Food Prize Laureate, is a plant geneticist who has helped produce higher-yielding rice and wheat varieties that have helped to increase crop production in countries around the world.
		Swaminathan, of India, is currently the President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology for the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, and the Chairman of the National Commission on Farmers for the Government of India.
	www.uiowa.edu /~humiowa/wfp.html (566 words)

	World Food Prize laureate to speak Oct. 17
		World Food Prize laureate to speak Oct. 17
		Indian-born Swaminathan, who was awarded the prize in 1987 for spearheading the introduction of high-yielding wheat and rice varieties to India’s farmers, will deliver the lecture "From a Green to an Ever-Green Revolution." Swaminathan has worked with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to establish agricultural policies and programs that will maintain long-term self-sufficiency in India.
		He has also been involved in the United Nations World Food Congress, the International Federation of Agricultural Research Systems for Development and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
	www.simpson.edu /marketing/news/oct06/foodprize.html (152 words)

	The Lantern - Food prize awarded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The prize, which issues $250,000 a year to its winner, was awarded this year to three scientists, one from the United States and two from Brazil, who have worked to transform the Cerrado region of Brazil into agricultural production, said Dave Hansen, associate dean and director of international programs in agriculture.
		With the help of his research, Punjab was able to turn into a net food exporter by improving the variety and market value of the rice grown in the area.
		He established the World Food Prize in 1986 to recognize the role that individuals played in fighting hunger, Hansen said.
	www.thelantern.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=9be50abf-bb92-4449-adbc-4b9cc24138cb (330 words)

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