This year’s World Food Prize has been awarded to Sir Fazle HasanAbed. The announcement was made on June 26. Sir Fazle is from Bangladesh. The World Food Prize is often called the “Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture”. It is given to a person who has improved the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. This can be by finding new ways of growing food, transporting it, making it more nutritious and also reducing poverty. Norman Borlaug had the idea for a World Food Prize. Over ten years Borlaug developed wheat plants that grew extra grain and did not get diseases. Some of his crossbred plants could be harvested twice every year. Borlaug helped many countries increase the amount of food they grew.

Mr.Abed was awarded because of his work to stop poverty. He founded the organization BRAC. It works to reduce poverty. This is done by teaching poor people, especially women, to read and work together and start their own businesses. The organizers of the World Food Prize said that Sir Fazle was given the award for reducing poverty in Bangladesh and ten other countries.