The World Food Prize Foundation is marking four decades of honoring the scientists, farmers and policy innovators who feed our planet. On this episode, host Ben Kieffer is joined by Iowa Governor and two-time U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. Vilsack now leads the foundation. We talk about what the World Food Prize’s 40th anniversary means for communities across the state and why global food security starts with places like Iowa. We also talk about the New World screwworm, the dismantling of USAID and more.
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World leaders and top experts in development, agriculture, economic policy, resource management and nutrition gather annually in Iowa for the Norman E. Bourlaug International Dialogue. -
Former USDA secretary Tom Vilsack hopes for bipartisan support to addressing hunger as the new CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation.
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World leaders and top experts in development, agriculture, economic policy, resource management and nutrition gather annually in Iowa for the Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue.
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Referred to as the "Nobel prize of agriculture", the annual World Food Prize was awarded in October during the Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue held in Des Moines.
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The World Food Prize will be awarded Thursday to the founder of a nonprofit that turns mine fields back into farm fields, just as the group prepares to begin work in Ukraine. -
How will climate change affect food production in Iowa and around the globe?
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The Des Moines-based World Food Prize Foundation awarded a NASA climate scientist with the 2022 World Food Prize on Thursday. -
The World Food Prize announced its 2022 laureate today, honoring a NASA climate scientist. -
Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development will join U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Iowa this week.
