- Organizer
- World Food Prize Foundation
- Why it counts
- Awarded annually since 1987 by the World Food Prize Foundation (Des Moines, Iowa), founded by Norman Borlaug, for individual achievement that increases the quantity, quality or availability of food; laureates receive US$500,000
- Held
- annual, laureate(s) announced in spring (March-June), prize awarded at the Laureate Award Ceremony in Des Moines in October; year = prize year