{"id":47780,"date":"2025-05-18T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47780"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:57:10","slug":"world-food-prize-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-food-prize-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"World Food Prize 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>World Food Prize Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Brazilian scientist Mariangela Hungria recently won the 2025 World Food Prize for her pioneering work in reducing the use of chemical fertilisers and developing biological seed and soil treatments to boost crop yields and nutrition.<\/p>\n<h2>About World Food Prize<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an international award recognizing the\u00a0<strong>achievements of individuals<\/strong>\u00a0that have\u00a0<strong>advanced human development by improving<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>quality, quantity, or availability of food\u00a0<\/strong>in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the\u00a0<strong>Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It recognizes contributions<strong>\u00a0in any field involved in the world food supply,<\/strong>\u00a0such as food and agriculture, science and technology, manufacturing, marketing, nutrition, economics, poverty alleviation, political leadership, and the social sciences.<\/li>\n<li>The Prize was f<strong>ounded in 1986 by Dr. Norman E. Borlaug,<\/strong>\u00a0r<strong>ecipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is now\u00a0<strong>administered by the World Food Prize Foundation\u00a0<\/strong>with support from numerous sponsors.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>$500,000 award<\/strong>\u00a0formally\u00a0<strong>presented at\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<strong>Laureate Award Ceremony<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>mid-October,\u00a0<\/strong>on or around\u00a0<strong>World Food Day, in conjunction with<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Borlaug Dialogue international symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>M.S. Swaminathan<\/strong>\u00a0was named the\u00a0<strong>first World Food Prize Laureate,\u00a0<\/strong>receiving the award in\u00a0<strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0for developing and spearheading the introduction of high-yielding wheat and rice varieties into India during the 1960s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Food Prize 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria<\/strong>\u00a0is the winner of the 2025 World Food Prize for her\u00a0<strong>work with biological seed and soil treatments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hungria&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>research enables crops to utilize soil bacteria for nutrients,<\/strong>\u00a0increasing yields and\u00a0<strong>reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Food Prize FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Who founded the World Food Prize in 1986?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It was founded in 1986 by Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who won World Food Prize first?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. M.S. Swaminathan was named the first World Food Prize Laureate, receiving the award in 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Who won the 2025 World Food Prize?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria is the winner of the 2025 World Food Prize for her work with biological seed and soil treatments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/three-arrested-for-killing-wild-elephants-in-assams-manas-national-park\/2616199\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PRINT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Food Prize recognizes contributions in any field involved in the world food supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":47535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[486],"class_list":{"0":"post-47780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-world-food-prize-2025","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}