DES MOINES — The World Food Prize is based in Iowa, but former Iowa Governor and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says many Iowans still do not fully understand what it is.
“I think it’s the most important question you can ask and the most important observation you just made, which is that not as many Iowans understand and appreciate what the World Food Prize Foundation is and what the World Food Prize is,” Vilsack said to Oskaloosa News during a lunch break at Bridget’s Public House just off the square in Oskaloosa.
The World Food Prize was founded in 1986 by Iowa native Dr. Norman Borlaug. Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work improving crop production around the world. He later created the World Food Prize because there was no Nobel Prize focused on agriculture or food…