Laureates
World Food Prize Laureates are formally honored at the World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony annually on or near October 16, United Nations World Food Day. The winners receive USD $250,000.
The announcement of the World Food Prize Laureate is made in the late spring or early summer prior to her or his formal recognition in October.
| Year | Laureate(s) | Nationality | Achievement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Dr. Daniel Hillel | Israel | Conceiving and implementing micro-irrigation in arid and dry land regions |
| 2011 | John Agyekum Kufuor and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Ghana Brazil |
Creating and implementing government policies to alleviate hunger and poverty in their countries |
| 2010 | David Beckmann and Jo Luck | United States | Building Bread for the World and Heifer International into two of the world's foremost grassroots organizations leading the charge to end hunger and poverty around the globe. |
| 2009 | Gebisa Ejeta | Ethiopia | Developing Africa's first sorghum hybrids resistant to drought and the parasitic witchweed. |
| 2008 | Bob Dole and George McGovern | United States | Leading and encouraging a global commitment to school feeding, which has enhanced school attendance and nutrition for millions of the world's poorest children, especially young women and girls. |
| 2007 | Dr. Philip E. Nelson | United States | Revolutionizing food processing, packaging, transportation, and distribution by perfecting bulk aseptic packaging technology and spreading the technology worldwide. |
| 2006 | Edson Lobato, His Excellency Alysson Paolinelli, Dr. A. Colin McClung |
Brazil Brazil United States |
Pioneering work in soil science and policy implementation that opened the vast Cerrado region of Brazil to agricultural and food production. |
| 2005 | Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta | India | Development and dissemination of low-cost techniques for freshwater fish farming (using tilapia species) by the rural poor. |
| 2004 | Prof. Yuan Longping | China | Development of hybrid rice varieties |
| Dr. Monty Jones | Sierra Leone | Development of New Rice for Africa (NERICA), with the potential to increase rice yields in Africa. | |
| 2003 | Catherine Bertini | United States / United Nations |
Transforming the World Food Programme from a development assistance program to the largest and most effective humanitarian food relief organization |
| 2002 | Dr. Pedro A. Sanchez | United States / Cuba |
Development of methods to restore fertility to degraded soils in Africa and South America. |
| 2001 | Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen | Denmark | Establishment of "Food For Education" programs in which families receive food subsidies when children stay in school. |
| 2000 | Dr. Evangelina Villegas, Dr. Surinder K. Vasal |
Mexico India |
Developing high quality protein maize (QPM). |
| 1999 | Dr. Walter Plowright | United Kingdom | Developing a vaccine against the cattle plague rinderpest. |
| 1998 | Dr. B.R. Barwale | India | Founder of independent seed company Mahyco, strengthening seed supply and distribution throughout India. |
| 1997 | Dr. Ray F. Smith, Dr. Perry Adkisson |
United States United States |
Developing the concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which employs various techniques to protect crops from insect damage in an environmentally sustainable manner. |
| 1996 | Dr. Henry Beachell, Dr. Gurdev Khush |
United States India |
Developing "miracle rice" varieties that doubled rice production in Asia since their development. |
| 1995 | Dr. Hans R. Herren | Switzerland | Developing a pest control program for the cassava mealybug, which could destroy African cassava crop. |
| 1994 | Dr. Muhammad Yunus | Bangladesh | Founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, developed innovative small loan programs for the poor, providing millions of people access to more food and better nutrition. |
| 1993 | His Excellency He Kang | China | Initiation of reforms while head of the Ministry of Agriculture which made China self-sufficient for food production. |
| 1992 | Dr. Edward F. Knipling, Dr. Raymond C. Bushland |
United States United States |
Developing the sterile insect technique (SIT) to control insect parasites that harm the world's food supply. |
| 1991 | Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw | United States | Human nutrition studies that led to the use of protein-rich food products to combat malnutrition in developing countries. |
| 1990 | Dr. John Niederhauser | United States | Discovering a durable resistance to potato late blight. |
| 1989 | Dr. Verghese Kurien | India | Founder of Operation Flood the largest agricultural development program in the world made the farmer the owner of his cooperative, cutting out middlemen. India emerged as the largest producer of milk in 1998 from milk scarcity when he started. |
| 1988 | Dr. Robert F. Chandler | United States | Founding leadership of the International Rice Research Institute and his dedication to developing tropical rice varieties that doubled and tripled the yields of traditional varieties. |
| 1987 | Prof. M.S. Swaminathan | India | Introducing high-yielding wheat and rice varieties to India starting India's Green Revolution. |
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