Anti-hunger advocates win World Food Prize for efforts to end global poverty
By Mary Clare Jalonick, APWednesday, June 16, 2010
Anti-hunger advocates win World Food Prize
WASHINGTON — Two anti-hunger advocates who have worked to end poverty worldwide are the winners of this year’s World Food Prize.
David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, and Jo Luck, president of Heifer International, were honored by the State Department Wednesday for expanding their large grassroots organizations and bringing help to millions of the world’s hungry.
Bread for the World is a Christian advocacy organization that presses lawmakers to support anti-hunger policies. Heifer International brings food and income producing animals to extremely poor families around the globe.
Established in 1986, the World Food Prize was created by Iowa native Norman Borlaug, who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for helping increase food supplies to developing countries around the world.
