| Year
| Laureate
| Achievement
|
| 2004
| Prof. Yuan Longping, China
| Development of hybrid rice varieties
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| 2004
| Dr. Monty Jones, Sierra Leone
| Development of New Rice for Africa (NERICA), with the potential to increase rice yields in Africa increasing yields.
|
| 2003
| Catherine Bertini, United States
| Transforming the World Food Programme from a development assistance program to the largest and most effective humanitarian food relief organization
|
| 2002
| Dr. Pedro A. Sanchez , United States/Cuba
| Development of methods to restore fertility to degraded soils in Africa and South America.
|
| 2001
| Dr. Per Pinstrup Andersen, Denmark
| Establishment of "Food For Education" programs in which the families receive food subsidies when children stay in school.
|
| 2000
| Dr. Evangelina Villegas, Mexico and Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, India.
| Developing high quality protein maize (QPM).
|
| 1999
| Dr. Walter Plowright, United Kingdom
| Developing a vaccine against the cattle plague, rinderpest.
|
| 1998
| B.R. Barwale, India.
| Founder of independent seed company Mahyco, strengthening seed supply and distribution through out India.
|
| 1997
| Dr. Ray F. Smith, United States and Dr. Perry Adkisson, United States.
| Developing the concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which employs various techniques to protect crops from insect damage in an environmentally sustainable manner.
|
| 1996
| Dr. Henry Beachell, United States and Dr. Gurdev Khush , India
| Developing rice lines that doubled rice production in Asia since their development.
|
| 1995
| Dr. Hans R. Herren, Switzerland
| Developing a pest control program for the cassava mealybug, which could destroy African cassava crop.
|
| 1994
| Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh.
| Founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, developed innovative small loan programs for the poor, providing millions of people access to more food and better nutrition.
|
| 1993
| He Kang, China.
| Initiation of reforms while head of the Ministry of Agriculture which made China self-sufficient for food production.
|
| 1992
| Dr. Edward F. Knipling , United States and Dr. Raymond Bushland, United States
| Developing the sterile insect technique (SIT) to control insect parasites that harm the world's food supply.
|
| 1991
| Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw, United States
| Human nutrition studies that led to the use of protein-rich food products to combat malnutrition in developing countries.
|
| 1990
| Dr. John Niederhauser , United States
| Discovering a durable resistance to potato late blight.
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| 1989
| Dr. Verghese Kurien, India.
| Turned the milksheds of India into the Amul cooperatives that produce, process, and market milk in the urban centres of that country.
|
| 1988
| Dr. Robert F. Chandler, United States
| Work with the International Rice Research Institute and his leadership in developing tropical rice varieties that doubled and tripled the yields beyond traditional varieties.
|
| 1987
| Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, India
| Introducing high-yielding wheat and rice varieties to India starting India's Green Revolution
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