Recently Who has been awarded World Food Prize 2022?

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• A Nasa climate research scientist,Cynthia Rosenzweig who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate was awarded the World Food prize.
• Cynthia Rosenzweig, an agronomist and climatologist, was awarded the $250,000 prize in recognition of her innovative modeling of the impact of climate change on food production.She is a senior research scientist at the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies and serves as adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University, both based in New York.
• Rosenzweig has studied how farmers can deal with climate change and how agriculture worsens the problem.
• The research organization she founded, AgMIP, develops adaptation packages, which could include the use of more drought-tolerant seeds and improved water management practices. In Bangladesh the group is working with rice farmers to develop new practices for managing rice paddies to reduce the significant release of methane produced by the existing process.
• Nobel prize laureate Norman Borlaug created the World Food prize in 1986 to recognize scientists and others who have improved the quality and availability of food.