World Food Prize Winners: Former Ghana, Brazil Presidents Lauded For Fight Against Hunger

[Judi Lynn]

World Food Prize Winners: Former Ghana, Brazil Presidents Lauded For Fight Against Hunger
MICHAEL J. CRUMB 06/21/11 01:03 PM ET

DES MOINES, Iowa — Former presidents of Ghana and Brazil will receive the World Food Prize for their successful efforts to reduce by half the number of people in their countries who suffer from hunger and poverty, the prize's foundation announced Tuesday.

John Agyekum Kufuor, who served as Ghana's president from 2001- 2009, and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who was Brazil's president from 2003-2010, were named this year's World Food Prize laureates during a ceremony in Washington.

The Des Moines, Iowa-based foundation each year awards the prize to honor efforts to lessen global hunger. Kufuor and Silva will share in the $250,000 prize, which was established by Iowa native Norman Borlaug, the winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to increase food production in developing nations with the use of hybrid crops. He died in 2009.

The foundation will officially award the prize to Kufuor and Silva during the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines in October.

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