This year’s $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil’s farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.
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Feeding the hungry will be harder than ever for the world’s largest food aid agency
The World Food Programme, a U.N. agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing cuts in its budget that experts are describing as “unprecedented.”
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The pandemic sent hunger soaring in Brazil. They’re fighting back with school lunches
Free school lunches, a pillar of Brazil’s anti-poverty efforts, are now one of its main weapons against surging post-pandemic hunger. And that’s not the only benefit.
