World Food Prize recipients: Even a ‘hopelessly miserable’ crop variety is worth saving. Hawtin and Fowler, a Mississippi native, said it's important to preserve seeds from wild as well ...

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.

The 2024 World Food Prize was awarded to scientists Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler, who were instrumental in establishing the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which holds 1.25 million seed samples of ...

The World Food Prize Foundation has announced the 39 members of its 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers list. Now in its second year, ...

Microbiologist Mariangela Hungria has won the $500,000 prize from the Iowa-based World Food Prize Foundation after her research helped her country become an agricultural powerhouse.

This photo provided by the World Food Prize Foundation shows, from left, Paul Schickler, Mashal Husain and Terry Branstad on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Ryan Damman/World Food Prize Foundation via AP) ...

This photo provided by the World Food Prize Foundation shows, from left, Paul Schickler, Mashal Husain and Terry Branstad on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Ryan Damman/World Food Prize Foundation via AP) ...

The World Food Prize Foundation said Tuesday that Branstad, a former Iowa governor and the first Trump administration's chief diplomat in China, will step down Jan. 31.

World Food Prize recipients: Even a ‘hopelessly miserable’ crop variety is worth saving. World Food Prize Laureate Geoffrey Hawtin speaks during the 2024 laureate award ceremony Thursday at ...

This photo provided by the World Food Prize Foundation shows, from left, Paul Schickler, Mashal Husain and Terry Branstad on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Ryan Damman/World Food Prize Foundation via AP) ...

This photo provided by the World Food Prize Foundation shows, from left, Paul Schickler, Mashal Husain and Terry Branstad on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Ryan Damman/World Food Prize Foundation via AP) ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa-based group that strives to alleviate world hunger and awards an annual prize honoring individuals for their efforts to improve food availability, on Tuesday ...