Jan 28, 2025 · Learn more about how to nominate for the 2025 World Food Prize and the 2024 Borlaug Field Award.

Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin and Dr. Cary Fowler will receive the 2024 World Food Prize for their extraordinary leadership in preserving and protecting the world’s heritage of crop biodiversity and mobilizing this critical resource to defend against threats to global food security.

The World Food Prize calls forth the global imperative to provide safe, affordable, nutritious, sustainable nutritious and equitable food for all. By honoring those who have worked successfully toward this goal, The Prize uplifts the work and reminds us all to be accomplished in the future.

The World Food Prize holds various events throughout the year, including: The Laureate Announcement Ceremony. Each Spring, beginning in 2004, the World Food Prize has been privileged to announce the name of the recipient of its $500,000 award in a ceremony at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.

May 1, 2024 · The World Food Prize recognizes achievements across the full scope of the food system, including in economics and finance, natural resource conservation, nutrition, plant and animal science, rural development, food and agricultural technology and more.

The World Food Prize is awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement that advances human development with a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of, or access to food through creative interventions at any point within the full scope of the food system.

More Than 150 Nobel And World Food Prize Laureates Issue Unprecedented Wake-Up Call Over Hunger Tipping Point A broad coalition of the world’s greatest thinkers make urgent plea for ‘moonshot’ efforts to solve ‘tragic mismatch of global food supply and demand’ in open letter.

Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the World Food Prize, has been called "the man who saved more lives than anyone who has ever lived." His approach to increasing global food production resulted in the saving of as many as one billion people worldwide from famine, starvation and death and earned him the title "Father of ...

Each year, the World Food Prize State Youth Institutes convene high school students, teachers and hunger fighters for a one-day symposium on local, national and global hunger and food insecurity issues.

The World Food Prize is a $500,000 award formally presented at the Laureate Award Ceremony in mid-October, on or around World Food Day, in conjunction with the Borlaug Dialogue international symposium.