Laureate Resources
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2024 World Food Prize Laureate Resources
Watch the 2024 World Food Prize Laureate Ceremony livestream on Thursday, October 31st, 2024, at 7:30 PM EDT at https://www.worldfoodprize.org/live
2024 World Food Prize Laureate Ceremony at the Department of State, live-streamed on May 9, 2024.
2023 World Food Prize Laureate Resources
Heidi Kühn of the United States received the 2023 World Food Prize for her farmer-focused development model that revitalizes farmland, food security, livelihoods, and resilience after devastating conflict. For more than two decades, she has shown more than a million people living in war-torn regions around the world a way forward for restoring peace and prosperity through agriculture. Click here to learn more!
2022 World Food Prize Laureate Resources
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of the United States received the 2022 World Food Prize for her seminal contributions to understanding and predicting the impacts of the interaction between climate and food systems. Through designing and leading rigorous, collaborative observational and modeling research, she provided the evidence used by thousands of decision-makers in more than 90 countries to both mitigate and adapt to climate change in local, national and global food systems. Click here to learn more!
2021 World Food Prize Laureate Resources
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, native of Trinidad and Tobago and a citizen of Denmark, will receive the 2021 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking research, critical insights and landmark innovations in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems. By bringing together interdisciplinary and international collaborators, she drove transformations in aquatic food systems to deliver improved nutrition, resilient ecosystems and secure livelihoods for millions of vulnerable people across the globe. Click here to learn more!
2020 World Food Prize Laureate Resources
Dr. Rattan Lal, native of India and a citizen of the United States, will receive the 2020 World Food Prize for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that restores and conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change. Click here to learn more!
