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A native Cuban and graduate of US Cornell University was presented with the $250,000 (€253,000) World Food Prize on 24-25 October in Des Monies, Iowa.
According to the World Food Prize Foundation Sanchez was selected for his contributions to reducing hunger and malnutrition throughout the developing world by transforming depleted tropical soils into productive agricultural lands.
Sanchez was also honoured for having played a critical role in establishing alternatives to slash-and-burn farming, which has destroyed millions of acres of rainforest.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug, the founder of the World Food Prize , remarked that "Dr. Sanchez' achievement gives hope that the Green Revolution can finally be extended to Africa."
Reflecting on Sanchez' contributions, Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, has honoured Sanchez by appointing him to chair the UN Taskforce On World Hunger as part of the UN Global Millennium Development Project.
The son of an agronomist, Dr. Sanchez was born in Havana in 1940. In 1958 he came to the United States and enrolled at Cornell University where he received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees.