world food prize
laureates
Table:
Year

Laureates

Nationality

Achievement

2013

Dr Mary-Dell Chilton,[3]
Dr Robert Fraley,[4]
Dr Marc Van Montagu[5]
United States
United States
Belgium

Developed science of modern plant biotechnology supporting improved sustainability and global food security[1][6]

2012

Dr Daniel Hillel
Israel

Conceiving and implementing micro-irrigation in arid and dry land regions

2011

John Agyekum Kufuor
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Ghana
Brazil

Creating and implementing government policies to alleviate hunger and poverty in their countries

2010

David Beckmann
Jo Luck
United States

Building Bread for the World and Heifer International into two of the world's foremost grassroots organizations leading the charge to end hunger and poverty around the globe.

2009

Gebisa Ejeta
Ethiopia

Developing Africa's first sorghum hybrids resistant to drought and the parasitic witchweed.

2008

Bob Dole
George McGovern
United States

Leading and encouraging a global commitment to school feeding, which has enhanced school attendance and nutrition for millions of the world's poorest children, especially young women and girls.

2007

Dr Philip E. Nelson
United States

Revolutionizing food processing, packaging, transportation, and distribution by perfecting bulk aseptic packaging technology and spreading the technology worldwide.

2006

Edson Lobato,
His Excellency Alysson Paolinelli,
Dr A. Colin McClung
Brazil
Brazil
United States

Pioneering work in soil science and policy implementation that opened the vast Cerrado region of Brazil to agricultural and food production.

2005

Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta
India

Development and dissemination of low-cost techniques for freshwater fish farming (using tilapia species) by the rural poor.

2004

Prof. Yuan Longping
China

Development of hybrid rice varieties

Dr Monty Jones
Sierra Leone

Development of New Rice for Africa (NERICA), with the potential to increase rice yields in Africa.

2003

Catherine Bertini
United States /
United Nations

Transforming the World Food Programme from a development assistance program to the largest and most effective humanitarian food relief organization

2002

Dr Pedro Sanchez
United States /
Cuba

Development of methods to restore fertility to degraded soils in Africa and South America.

2001

Dr Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Denmark

Establishment of "Food For Education" programs in which families receive food subsidies when children stay in school.

2000

Dr Evangelina Villegas,
Dr Surinder K. Vasal
Mexico
India

Developing high quality protein maize (QPM).

1999

Dr Walter Plowright
United Kingdom

Developing a vaccine against the cattle plague rinderpest.

1998

Dr B. R. Barwale
India

Founder of independent seed company Mahyco, strengthening seed supply and distribution throughout India.

1997

Dr Ray F. Smith,
Dr Perry Adkisson
United States
United States

Developing the concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which employs various techniques to protect crops from insect damage in an environmentally sustainable manner.

1996

Dr Henry Beachell,
Dr Gurdev Khush
United States
India

Developing "miracle rice" varieties that doubled rice production in Asia since their development.

1995

Dr Hans Rudolf Herren
Switzerland

Developing a pest control program for the cassava mealybug, which could destroy African cassava crop.

1994

Dr Muhammad Yunus
Bangladesh

Founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, developed innovative small loan programs for the poor, providing millions of people access to more food and better nutrition.

1993

His Excellency He Kang
China

Initiation of reforms while head of the Ministry of Agriculture which made China self-sufficient for food production.

1992

Dr Edward F. Knipling,
Dr Raymond C. Bushland
United States
United States

Developing the sterile insect technique (SIT) to control insect parasites that harm the world's food supply.

1991

Dr Nevin S. Scrimshaw
United States

Human nutrition studies that led to the use of protein-rich food products to combat malnutrition in developing countries.[7]

1990

Dr John Niederhauser
United States

Discovering a durable resistance to potato late blight.

1989

Dr Verghese Kurien
India

Founder of Operation Flood the largest agricultural development program in the world made the farmer the owner of his cooperative, cutting out middlemen. India emerged as the largest producer of milk in 1998 from milk scarcity when he started.

1988

Dr Robert F. Chandler
United States

Founding leadership of the International Rice Research Institute and his dedication to developing tropical rice varieties that doubled and tripled the yields of traditional varieties.

1987

Prof. M. S. Swaminathan
India

Introducing high-yielding wheat and rice varieties to India starting India's Green Revolution.

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