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World Food Prize Laureates named for 2011

The World Food Prize organization in Des Moines has named its 2011 World Food Prize Laureates. They are John Agyekum Kufuor, the former president of Ghana. And, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former President of Brazil.

Both leaders are credited for enacting initiatives and policies that have reduced hunger in their countries.

The World Food Prize says under President Kufuor’s leadership, “Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to cut in half the proportion of its people who suffer from hunger, and the proportion of people living on less than a dollar per day, on course to achieve United Nations’ Millenium Development Goal 1 before the 2015 deadline.”

Brazil, under President Lula Da Silva’s leadership and Zero Hunger strategy, reached that MDG-1 goal by reducing in half its proportion of hungry citizens and reduced extreme poverty levels to under five-percent by 2009.

Part of the MDG-1 goal is to reduce the proportion of people in the world by half who suffer from hunger – between the years of 1990 and 2015.

AUDIO: Dr. Kenneth Quinn (8:00 mp3)

World Food Prize 2011 Laureates

UN Millenium Development Goals

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