3 days ago · Learn more about how to nominate for the 2025 World Food Prize and the 2024 Borlaug Field Award.

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.

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.

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 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.

Each year, more than 100 exceptional high school students from across the United States and other countries are selected to participate in the three-day Global Youth Institute hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation.

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.

May 5, 2022 · Leading climatologist, agronomist and former farmer Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig has been named the 2022 World Food Prize Laureate for her pioneering work in modeling the impact of climate change on food production worldwide.

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.

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 ...