Food security: Lessons from China, Yuan Longping
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Wed May 26 2021
Since Saturday, May 22, 2021, China, the world’s most populous country, has been celebrating the life and times of one of its greatest achievers. Prof Yuan Longping, an agronomist, who died at the age of 90; but it is not just his longevity that his countrymen and women are dancing for.
China is paying tribute to the man who broke its hunger streak and helped the nation achieve near food security at a time when hunger was tormenting a significant fraction of the human race.
Today, China is the world’s largest producer of rice, and, surprisingly, it uses only nine per cent of its arable land to produce this.
Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize From
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Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named today as the 2021 World Food Prize Laureate for improving the quality, quantity, and availability of food in the world through her pioneering scientific work on nutrition, fish, and aquatic food systems.
Often referred to as the “Nobel Prize for food and agriculture,” the World Food Prize is the most prominent global award recognizing an individual who has enhanced human development and confronted global hunger by improving the quality, quantity, and availability of food for all.