Leader of food security nonprofits to head World Food Prize
Tuesday, 12 November 2019 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The foundation that awards the World Food Prize to individuals who work to improve food security in hopes of ending world hunger announced Tuesday that its new president will be a woman who has led nonprofit organizations focused on global food security, food safety and the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity.
Barbara Stinson will succeed Kenneth Quinn, the former U.S. ambassador to Cambodia whose 20-year presidency of the World Food Prize Foundation established an international presence for the organization.
The foundation attracts 1,200 world leaders from 65 countries to the annual award ceremony and symposium to address issues related to global food security and nutrition.
Stinson said her goal is to focus on the platform already established over the foundation's three-decade history and expand on its work with the goal of further alleviating hunger in the most vulnerable parts of the world.
"You can see in various parts of the world reductions in hunger by official measures and statistics and it's great to see but we still face over 800 million people hungry every day. So, the challenge is global and it's more pronounced on certain continents. In absolute numbers in Asia and in Africa by prevalence more people go to bed hungry per capita than on any continent in the world so there is still so much work to be done," she said.
Quinn, who became the organization's first president in 1999, announced his retirement in March.
Plant scientist Norman Borlaug, the 1970 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, created the World Food Prize in 1986 to recognize scientists and others who have improved the quality and availability of food.
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