This year’s World Food Prize winners say preserving crop diversity with seeds stored in their so-called "doomsday vault" in the Arctic Circle will be critical to countries' ability to feed their ...

You will never succeed. This will never be possible,'" she recalls. Today, her work was rewarded with the World Food Prize, which recognizes advances in agriculture and nutrition. Bestowed by the ...

Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria, whose work boosts crop yields while slashing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting water pollution, is this year’s winner of the $500,000 World Food ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – 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 announced ...

Microbiologist Mariangela Hungria's research helped her country become an agricultural powerhouse, an accomplishment that has now won her $500,000 from the Iowa-based World Food Prize Foundation.

Not quite two years after taking the helm of the World Food Prize Foundation, former U.S. Ambassador Terry Branstad will retire as president of the prestigious, Des Moines-based group that honors ...

Svalbard is often described as a remote, frozen wasteland. For conspiracy theorists, early visits to the Global Seed Vault by billionaires such as Bill Gates and George Soros, and representatives from ...

The World Food Prize Foundation announced it will be partnering with Meals From the Heartland to host a meal packaging ...

The World Food Prize Foundation Announces Changes to Expand International Reach DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa-based group that strives to alleviate world hunger and awards an annual prize ...