Items Tagged with 'World Food Prize'

Huub Lelieveld, a Dutch scientist who led a global food safety movement and dismantled barriers to trade and humanitarian aid, was selected as the 2026 World Food Prize Laureate for his life work supporting breakthroughs that have reshaped the fields of food and agriculture. 

Derek Barchenger, head of the Global Pepper Breeding Program at the World Vegetable Center, was named the 2025 recipient of the Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application for his global leadership in pepper breeding. 

After serving 12 of the past 16 years leading the Department of Agriculture, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has been named CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation to continue the legacy of global food security and sustainable agriculture leader, Norman Borlaug. 

Thirteen World Food Prize laureates, including 2024 honoree Geoffrey Hawtin, issued a statement Wednesday calling global hunger the “big issue being overlooked” in U.S. elections.

The “genetic revolution” in agriculture powered by gene editing can help preserve access to traditional foods in the future, protecting them from environmental threats, says Qu Dongyu, director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Two scientists who led efforts to create a storage vault holding more than a million seed samples have been named the 2024 World Food Prize Laureates.

Heidi Kühn, the founder and CEO of the humanitarian nonprofit Roots for Peace, has been selected as this year's World Food Prize laureate for her work in turning war-torn land into farmland.