World Food Prize week in Iowa culminated last Thursday with the award of what is considered the “Nobel Prize of Agriculture.” The laureate awards were awarded to two advocates of plant genetic diversity and global seed banks.
World Food Prize Foundation President Terry Branstad opened Thursday’s ceremony from the Iowa capitol building in Des Moines.
This year’s laureate award recipients received the honor for their work in developing global plant gene banks. The recipients are Geoffrey Hawtin of the United Kingdom and Canada and Cary Fowler of the United States.
Hawtin says that genetic diversity is a key pillar of his work.
Fowler says that a global database was needed for work in this field.
That was Geoffrey Hawtin of the United Kingdom and Canada and Cary Fowler of the United States, recipients of this year’s World Food Prize laureate awards.
