…The World Food Prize has been criticized in the past for favoring industrial agriculture. The foundation that administers the prize has received contributions from companies,including a $5 million pledge from Monsanto in 2008
World Food Prize awarded to Monsanto is funded by Monsanto.
Looks like one out of eleven winners, since 2008, works for Monsanto. The Monsanto guy this year is one of three sharing the prize. Why isn't it closer to 100% of the winners? LOL!
Oh please.
World Food Prize is an Iowa State University thing started by Norman Borlaug and trucking magnate John Ruan.
Heck, they spent $30 million just renovating the old Des Moines Public Library building to move WFP organization from the ISU campus. Most of it got spent on bad art.
It’s no different from Hollywood funding Academy Awards or any other industry group handing out awards in their industry.
"This statement is supported by 81 Councillors of the World Future Council,
… The choice of the 2013 World Food Prize is an affront to the growing international consensus on safe, ecological farming practices that have been scientifically proven to promote nutrition and sustainability. Many governments have rejected GMOs, and as many as two million citizens in 52 countries recently marched in oppositionto GMOs and Monsanto. In living democracies, discounting this knowledge and these many voices is not acceptable.
… While profitable to the few companies producing them, GMO seeds reinforce a model of farming that undermines sustainability of cash-poor farmers, who make up most of the world'shungry. GMO seeds continuefarmers' dependency on purchased seed and chemical inputs. The most dramaticimpact of such dependency isinIndia, where 270,000 farmers, many trapped indebt for buying seedsand chemicals, committed suicide between1995 and 2012.