Stepping down as agriculture secretary, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is stepping up as the first CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation ...

More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food prizes released an open letter Tuesday calling for a dramatic increase in research and a commitment to new food distribution efforts with a ...

The former USDA secretary and former governor will be CEO of the Des Moines-based World Food Prize Foundation,which strives to alleviate world hunger and honors the work of international leaders for ...

Tom Vilsack, who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during the Obama and Biden administrations, has been selected by the ...

Cynthia Rosenzweig, a climate research scientist at NASA who won the World Food Prize in 2022, said in an interview that researchers are already making progress toward breakthroughs, but their ...

Promising research to avoid a crisis needs urgent investment, they write. More than 150 Nobel Prize and World Food Prize laureates are making an urgent plea for world leaders to invest in ...

Former Governor Terry Branstad took over as president of the World Food Prize Foundation in 2023. (WFP photo) Today is former Governor Terry Branstad’s last day as president of the World Food Prize.

Tom Vilsack will return to Iowa as CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation, headquartered in Des Moines, following his role as ...

The World Food Prize brings hundreds of people ... symposium culminates in a ceremony at the state Capitol to award the prize, which last year went to Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler, the ...

DES MOINES — Former Gov. Tom Vilsack will return to Iowa to lead the World Food Prize Foundation after stepping down as U.S.

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