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Purdue scientist to receive World Food Prize
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | about 1 month ago
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A Purdue University scientist is being honored as this year�s recipient of the World Food Prize. Gebisa Ejeta won the honor because of his breakthroughs in developing drought and disease-resistant forms of sorghum, which is an African diet staple. Ejeta...
Tags: Gebisa Ejeta, world food, food prize, Purdue University, Ethiopian
Gates to urge renewal of Green Revolution
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Transforming how people use computers may have been the easy part...Over the past three years, his foundation has committed $1.4 billion toward agricultural development, funding projects ranging from breeding higher-yielding plants to helping African...
Tags: food production, Bill Gates, gates foundations, Melinda Gates Foundation, sub-Saharan Africa, world food, Empower Africa, Des Moines, food prize, prize symposium
Student goes global with food policy paper
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Francesca Lubecki-Wilde will be in the same company as Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former Iowa Gov. and current U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack this weekend. The City High freshman will meet with those dignitaries and present a paper on...
Tags: world food, food prize
Dole, McGovern receive food prize; Borlaug missed at ceremony
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility One of Norman Borlaug's favorite pieces of music, the "Iowa Corn Song," was heard Thursday night in Des Moines at the World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony, but the man who inspired the prize missed the presentation for the first time in its 21-year...
Tags: Norman Borlaug, food prize
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