“The army worm is a clear and present danger,” said Akinwumi Adesina, who was to be inducted as the 2017 World Food Prize winner yesterday in Des Moines, Iowa, the United States of America. What we need are urgent actions to support Africa, to rapidly address this real threat to its food security.”The World Food Prize is popularly known as the Nobel Prize for agriculture. “Stopping the army worm is the highest purpose to which we can dedicate this year’s Borlaug Dialogue,” said Pedro Sanchez, a soil scientist with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and the 2002 World Food Prize laureate. In fact, the fall army worm has long been in North America, but scientists and producers have largely been successful in containing it. He was born in Iowa and established the World Food Prize.

Source: Daily Observer October 20, 2017 02:03 UTC