{"id":13490,"date":"2026-06-20T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-supports-world-food-prize-2018\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:38:35","slug":"iita-supports-world-food-prize-2018","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-supports-world-food-prize-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA supports World Food Prize 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 17  and 19 October, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldfoodprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Food Prize<\/a> was awarded in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The World Food Prize Award Ceremony is preceded by the Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium, named after the late Nobel Peace Prize Winner  and World Food Prize founder Dr Norman Borlaug. The Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium  and World Food Prize Award Ceremony bring together international leaders, policymakers, farmers, executives from agribusiness  and nongovernmental organizations,  and scientific, academic  and development experts to address the most critical issues facing global food security. This year\u2019s theme \u201cRise to the Challenge\u201d refers to the global movement to feed an estimated 9 billion people by the year 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><figure id=\"attachment_17564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17564\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DG-Nteranya-Sanginga-serving-as-a-panel-member-at-a-session-in-the-World-Food-Prize-2018-in-Des-Moines-Iowa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17564\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DG-Nteranya-Sanginga-serving-as-a-panel-member-at-a-session-in-the-World-Food-Prize-2018-in-Des-Moines-Iowa-300x113-1.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of DG Nteranya Sanginga serving as a panel member at a session in the World Food Prize 2018 in Des Moines, Iowa\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DG Nteranya Sanginga serving as a panel member at a session in the World Food Prize 2018 in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IITA  and CGIAR were well represented during the World Food Prize event, with reference to CGIAR as the world\u2019s leading agricultural research-for-development consortium,  and IITA as driving agricultural transformation in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IITA DG Nteranya Sanginga featured in several panel discussions. During the main event at the State Capitol of Iowa, DG Sanginga  and IITA were recognized for their achievements  and for winning the Africa Food Prize 2018 that was awarded during the Africa Green Revolution Forum 2018 in Kigali, Rw anda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Sanginga, \u201cWinning the Africa Food Prize is significant for IITA since it shows that our stakeholders recognize the importance of the work we are doing in Africa to put agriculture in the driver\u2019s seat of development. This has really made IITA as a partner of choice on research  and development to enhance farmers\u2019 lives  and ensure that agriculture is used to make Africa as the next food basket of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CGIAR organized a side event on \u201cScience of Scaling\u201d that featured IITA Senior Scientist Dr Marc Schut as one of the panelists. The side event was attended by business leaders, R4D donors, CGIAR DGs,  and colleagues  and development organizations. \u201cI think we really put \u2018scaling of innovation\u2019 at the center of the World Food Prize event. More attention for scaling is needed to ensure that our hard work translates into better development impacts  and reaches more beneficiaries faster  and in a more cost-efficient manner,\u201d says Schut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2018 World Food Prize was awarded to Drs Lawrence Haddad  and David Nabarro for their individual  and complementary global leadership in elevating maternal  and child undernutrition to a central issue within the food security  and development dialogue at national  and international levels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 17 and 19 October, the World Food Prize was awarded in Des Moines, Iowa, 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