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The World Food Prize honors those who have worked successfully toward ensuring a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people.
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Video and transcripts from the 2009 Borlaug Dialogue are now available online. See presentations from Bill Gates, Indra Nooyi, Jeffrey Sachs, Tom Vilsack, Gebisa Ejeta and many more, as well as roundtable discussions on a variety of topics.
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The 2009 World Food Prize was awarded to Dr...
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Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered his first major address on agriculture at the 2009 Borlaug Dialogue. Watch the speech and read the transcript.
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Over 400 friends and admirers of the late Dr. Norman Borlaug gathered at the Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates on October 14, to celebrate the life and work of the Iowa native and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, who died on September 12...
Stephanie Gompf Jolliff
Stephanie Gompf Jolliff
What an AMAZING learning experience at The World Food Prize!
October 19 at 7:46pm
Terefe Belayneh
Terefe Belayneh
what a joke is that!!! Why not they help him to make his dream comes true in Africa? Just read the book 'Enough', you will get all the answer for this messy world.
October 21 at 12:11am
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The World Food Prize Catch a rebroadcast of the 2009 World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony in 10 minutes on statewide Iowa Public Television.

October 18 at 2:50pm
Stephanie Venenga
Stephanie Venenga
This doesn't look like the award ceremony to me...
October 18 at 4:44pm
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The World Food Prize We've wrapped up a successful 2009 World Food Prize. Here's the video on this year's Laureate Gebisa Ejeta

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Anteneh
Anteneh
Leencaa Ethiopia! Baayye boone
October 18 at 1:26pm
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The World Food Prize Bill Gates, live from the World Food Prize in 15 minutes!

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A live webcast of Bill Gates' keynote address at the 2009 World Food Prize Symposium in DesMoines, IA, beginning at 9:15am CDT on October 15, 2009.
Anastasia Bodnar
Anastasia Bodnar
Thanks for posting this. Watching now!
October 15 at 7:37am
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The World Food Prize Bill Gates presents live from the World Food Prize "Borlaug Dialogue" in 50 minutes (courtesy of the Des Moines Register)

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Stephanie Gompf Jolliff
Stephanie Gompf Jolliff
Great presentation!!
October 15 at 8:30am
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The World Food Prize Nice report from KBTX on Dr. Borluag's memorial service in Texas. http://www.kbtx.com/tamu/headlines/63590687.html

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Friends, family and dignitaries attended the memorial service for Norman Borlaug, the man who taught for two-and-a-half decades at A&M and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Among the speakers at Rudder Auditorium were Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
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@Gretchen - The memorial was put on by Texas A&M University, so you might want to contact them. The World Food Prize has collected some tributes to him at http://www.worldfoodprize.org/press_room/2009/sept/borlaug-tributes.htm

@Sohaib - The World Food Prize has a detailed bio of Dr. Borlaug at http://www.worldfoodprize.org/borlaug/borlaug-history.htm
October 12 at 3:13pm
Gretchen Mohr
Gretchen Mohr
Thank you so much! I can't wait for the World Food Prize.
October 12 at 6:06pm
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The World Food Prize The World Food Prize has officially taken possession of the former Des Moines Public Library building. It will now begin its transformation into the Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates. Check out the great story from KCCI.

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Work will begin soon on a $29 million transformation of the old downtown Des Moines Library into the new headquarters for the World Food Prize Foundation.
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The Borlaug Dialogue, October 14-16, will focus on “Food, Agriculture, and National Security in a Globalized World.” Coming just a month after the passing of Dr. Norman E. Bo...
Gabriel Laizer
Gabriel Laizer
I will be in Iowa on those dates. Who else is going to be there?
September 25 at 12:32pm
Nic Young
Nic Young
Hi Gabriel -- the preliminary event schedule is online here: http://worldfoodprize.org/symposium/2009/agenda.htm
September 25 at 2:01pm
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In one of his final interviews, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug sat down with the Wall Street Journal's Roger Thurow to discuss why famine still exists nearly four decades after he was recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the man who saved more lives than any other person who has ever lived, died Saturday, September 12 in his Texas home. He was 95 years old.
Laura Johnson
Laura Johnson
He left an incredible legacy, one that will hopefully bear the fruit he dreamed of for Africa.
September 13 at 6:23am
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Following the death of World Food Prize Founder Norman Borlaug, various tributes to his impact and lasting legacy have been coming in from all parts of the globe.
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