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02/06/2025 Submissions Now Open for the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP)
Submissions are now open for the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP), an annual initiative from the World Food Prize Foundation. Launched in 2024, TAP celebrates innovators transforming global food systems....
01/28/2025 U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Appointed as CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation
The World Food Prize Foundation announced today that United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will serve as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer, beginning March 1, 2025. As CEO, Vilsack...
01/22/2025 Inaugural ‘Innovate for Impact Challenge’ Launched by World Food Prize Foundation to Uncover Promising Agricultural Breakthroughs
The World Food Prize Foundation has launched a search for the latest agricultural breakthroughs with a new global competition, “Innovate for Impact Challenge,” The Challenge is aimed at identifying and...
01/14/2025 More Than 150 Nobel And World Food Prize Laureates Issue Unprecedented Wake-Up Call Over Hunger Tipping Point
Highlights: 153 Nobel and World Food Prize Laureates call on world leaders to prioritize urgent agricultural research to meet food needs of 9.7 billion people by 2050. Robert Woodrow Wilson, Cary Fowler,...
12/29/2024 World Food Prize Foundation Pays Tribute to Jimmy Carter, First Foundation Council of Advisors Member
On behalf of the World Food Prize Laureates and our Council of Advisors, the World Food Prize Foundation extends its deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of President...
11/19/2024 World Food Prize Foundation Announces Leadership Changes
Today, the World Food Prize Foundation announced that Ambassador Terry Branstad will retire as President on January 31, 2025, and Foundation Chief Operating Officer Mashal Husain will become President. In...
10/30/2024 World Food Prize Foundation Announces $50,000 Innovate for Impact Challenge
The World Food Prize Foundation, in collaboration with America’s Cultivation Corridor, is excited to announce the launch of the Innovate for Impact Challenge, a groundbreaking initiative designed to accelerate innovation...
10/30/2024 Laureate Statement - World Hunger: The Big Issue Being Overlooked In The U.S. Elections
We are struck that the U.S. elections, just one week away, have included almost no discussion of world hunger. The unprecedented progress against world hunger of recent decades has begun...
10/29/2024 2024 World Food Prize Week: Seeds of Opportunity - Bridging Generations and Cultivating Diplomacy
The 2024 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue will assemble an array of policy makers, international leaders, farmers, non-governmental organizations and academic experts to address the critical issues facing the global...
09/13/2024 The World Food Prize Foundation Selects Nine Students for Esteemed Internship Program
The World Food Prize Foundation announced today the selection of 9 students for the 2024-25 internship program. Since the creation of its collegiate internship program in 2001, the Foundation has...
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