Leading climatologist, agronomist, NASA scientist and former farmer Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig was awarded the 2022 World Food Prize on May 5, 2022.
About Cynthia Rosenzweig and achievements
- She was awarded the $2,50,000 prize in recognition of her innovative modelling of the impact of climate change on food production.
- Rosenzweig is a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and serves as adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University, both in New York.
- She has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate.
- She was honoured for her achievements as the founder of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), a globally integrated transdisciplinary network of climate and food system modelers.
About AgMIP
- AgMIP is dedicated to advancing methods for improving predictions of the future performance of agricultural and food systems in the face of climate change, providing the evidence base for effective food system transformation.
- The foundation credited her work with directly helping decision-makers in more than 90 countries establish plans to prepare for climate change.
About World Food Prize
- Every year presented in Iowa (USA), this foremost international honor recognizes — without regard to race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs — the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
- Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in global agriculture, envisioned a prize that would honor those who have made significant and measurable contributions to improving the world’s food supply.
- His vision was realized when The World Food Prize was created in 1986 with sponsorship by General Foods Corporation.
- The Prize is presented each October on or around UN World Food Day (October 16). The award is presented by the World |Food Prize Foundation.
- Dr. M.S. Swaminathan received the first World Food Prize in 1987 for spearheading the introduction of high-yielding wheat and rice varieties to India’s farmers.
- Dr. Verghese Kurien (1989), B.R. Barwale (1998), Dr. Modadugu Gupta (2005), Dr. Surinder K. Vasal (2000), Dr. Rattan Lal (2020) are other recipients from India.
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