The World Food Prize Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa, has appointed Tom Vilsack as CEO beginning March 1. As CEO, Vilsack will ...

Brian Schmidt, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2011, said the need to dramatically increase food production ... and emphasis from world leaders. “It’s not that we have to dream up ...

The former governor, stepping down after serving as secretary of agriculture in the Biden administration, will become the Des Moines-based World Food Prize Foundation’s first CEO. The Democrat ...

Today is former Governor Terry Branstad’s last day as president of the World Food Prize. “I intend to still be involved as a volunteer and I want to do what I can to help,” Branstad said during a ...

He has served two terms as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and two terms as governor of Iowa, in addition to involvement with several organizations focused on agricultural trade and sustainable food ...

He added that many of the world's 800 million undernourished people live in Africa. Since 1986, the World Food Prize aims to recognise efforts to increase the quality and quantity of available food.

Tom Vilsack will return to Iowa as CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation, headquartered in Des Moines, following his role as U.S. secretary of agriculture during the Biden-Harris administration.

The World Food Prize Foundation has announced that former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will take on the role of Chief Executive ...