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India's Swaminathan was a true force of nature who saved millions of lives
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoOne of the last giants of the 1960s and ❜70s Green Revolution, M.S. Swaminathan, died at his home in...
US is leading the innovation needed to feed the world
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThis week, the agricultural world will focus on Des Moines for the annual World Food Prize Borlaug...
Why we can't lose sight of the farm bill: Food security is national security
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs Congress has voted to extend the farm bill with programs impacting all Americans, just steps away...
World Food Prize seizes our attention for the most basic of needs
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA century of work to reduce global hunger has produced spectacular achievements, preserving and...
Roots of Peace founder wins World Food Prize for reviving farms in former minefields
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHeidi Kühn of California, founder of the nonprofit humanitarian group Roots of Peace, has won the...
My Take: Take the time to shore up your human connections
Hillsdale Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the early 1960s, I returned to Hillsdale County from a stint in the U.S. Air Force. Norman Borlaug had launched the “Green Revolution” around the same time to increase food production and ...
Pair behind 'Doomsday vault,' a bank of 1.25 million seeds, win $500,000 World Food Prize
Gannett via AOL· 1 month agoThe two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can...
Samantha Power, Pulitzer winner and USAID administrator, slated as World Food Prize speaker
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSamantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, is slated to be a keynote speaker at the World Food Prize's Borlaug Dialogue next month ...
USAID administrator says climate change is major force behind global food crisis
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFacing the "greatest global food crisis of our lifetimes," countries must find a way to move beyond "lurching from food crisis to food crisis" to finding long-term solutions, even while climate ...
'We will feed the world in 50 years': Scientists behind giant seed vault win World Food Prize
Euronews via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTwo men who were instrumental in creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world's...