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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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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| 09/05/2024 |
The World Food Prize Foundation Announces Dennis Beesigamukama as the 2024 Recipient of the Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application
From the stage of the Africa Food Systems Forum in Rwanda, the World Food Prize Foundation announced Dr. Dennis Beesigamukama, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Centre of Insect Physiology...
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| 08/27/2024 |
Inaugural Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP) Cohort Launched
In an effort to identify and celebrate global trailblazers working in food and agriculture, the World Food Prize Foundation has launched its first-ever Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP) List.
This year’s TAP...
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| 08/15/2024 |
Press and Media Partner Registration Now Open for the 2024 World Food Prize Week of Events
Press and media partner registration for the 2024 World Food Prize Week of Events held October 29-31, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa, is now open. As the highlight of the...
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| 07/29/2024 |
Annual Iowa Hunger Summit Gathers Leaders and Advocates from Across the State Discussing Pressing Hunger Issues
The World Food Prize Foundation will host its annual Iowa Hunger Summit on July 31, 2024. This free hybrid event will gather passionate community members and food-systems leaders from across...
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| 07/22/2024 |
World Food Prize Foundation Select Students for Distinguished Wallace-Carver Fellowship
The World Food Prize Foundation welcomed 14 exceptional college students last week to Washington, D.C., celebrating the culmination of the World Food Prize Foundation Wallace-Carver Fellowship, in partnership with the...
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