WorldFish Center Aquaculturalist Named Winner of the 2005 World Food Prize

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Innovative Researcher Honored for Bringing Blue Revolution and Improved Nutrition to One Million Extremely Poor People in South and Southeast Asia, and Africa Dr ModaduguV.Gupta, recently retired from the World Fish Center after a 15-year career, hasbeen named winner of the 250 000 dollar World Food Prize for his work to enhance nutrition for over one million people, mostly very poor women, through the expansion of aquaculture and fish farming in South and Southeast Asia, and Africa. The World FoodPrize is the foremost international award for increasing the quaiity, quantity and availability of food in the world. The Prize emphasizes the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people. By honoring those who have worked successfully toward this goal, it calls attention to what has been done to improve the world food supply and to what can be accomplished in the future.