US Edition153 winners of Nobel and World Food prizes seek new ways to grow food to meet surging global need
- More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food Prizes released an open letter calling for a dramatic increase in research and food distribution efforts to avoid a global hunger crisis in coming decades.
- The letter states that an estimated 700 million people are currently food insecure and that climate change and population growth will worsen food needs.
- The letter advocates for transformational efforts, including enhancing photosynthesis in crops and developing less fertilizer-dependent varieties, to increase food production.
- Brian Schmidt and Cynthia Rosenzweig emphasize the need for significant funding and commitment from governments and private groups to address future food needs.
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Nobel and World Food prize winners call for new ways to prevent a global hunger crisis
More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food prizes released an open letter Tuesday calling for a dramatic increase in research and a commitment to new food distribution efforts with a goal of producing more crops and avoiding a global hunger crisis in coming decades. The letter notes that an estimated 700 million people now are “ food insecure and desperately poor” but that without a “moonshot” effort to grow more and different kinds of…
More than 150 Nobel Prize-winning or World Food Prize-winning scientists claim that huge investments are needed across the food value chain and a great effort in research to prevent a global famine in the middle of the century. “We are not in a position to meet future food needs. We are not even close to doing so,” they pointed out in an open letter entitled Towards a world without hunger and published this Tuesday, in which they assure that “ho…
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Independent EspañolWinners of the Nobel Prize and the World Food Prize believe that without an “extraordinary” effort to grow more and different types of food, many more people will suffer from a serious lack of food.
153 winners of Nobel and World Food prizes seek new ways to address hunger
More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food prizes released an open letter Tuesday calling for a dramatic increase in research and a commitment to new food distribution efforts with a goal of producing more crops and avoiding a global hunger crisis in coming decades.
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