Past World Hunger Prize Winners



Thirteen winners of the World Hunger Prize issued an appeal on October 30,  2024 at the  Borlaug Dialogue gathering in Des Moines, Iowa.  The annual gathering, this year from October 29-31, showcased over 50 speakers from around the world, including the 2024 World Food Prize winners Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin and Dr. Cary Fowler.  Hawtin and Fowler were founders in 2008 of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in Norway, which today holds 1.25 million seed samples of more than 6,000 plant species in an underground facility in the Arctic Circle.   The goal is to ensure options for crop diversity long into the future.

In the featured image here, the Governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, speaks to the conference participants.

The letter published signed by 13 prize winners   asks for candidates for office and voters in the US to  remember world hunger and its potential solutions, and for the US to participate in multilateral initiatives to avert famine.  It includes:  “As we gather in Iowa, in the heartland of the United States, we are also thinking beyond the U.S. election and planning ahead to bring about a world without poverty and hunger. …Hungry people are struggling for a better life. U.S. leadership can give them hope. ”

Prize winners who signed this are:  Maria Andrade, David Beckmann,
Howarth Bouis, Gebisa Ejeta, Lawrence Haddad, Geoffrey Hawtin,
Gurdev Khush, Heidi Kühn, Rattan Lal, Jan Low, Per Pinstrup-Andersen,
Pedro Sanchez, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted.

The full letter is at:  www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/87428/49164/laureate_statement__world_hunger_the_big_issue_being_overlooked_in_the_us_elections 

 

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