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2025 World Food Prize - Mariangela Hungria
May 18 , 2025
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- Brazilian scientist Mariangela Hungria has won the 2025 World Food Prize.
- This is awarded for her pioneering work in reducing the use of chemical fertilisers and developing biological seed and soil treatments to boost crop yields and nutrition.
- The Brazilian farmers were estimated to have saved up to $40 billion annually in input costs due to the technologies Hungria developed.
- She has developed the first microbial inoculant for grass pastures.
- It results in a 22 per cent increase in biomass and improved cattle forage.
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