LokVox
ENहिंदी
Subscribe
Friday, 23 October
Sensex73,123.83−0.17%
Nifty 5022,600.00−0.39%
₹ / $94.82+0.44
Repo rate5.50%+0.25 on 7 Oct
Markets: 23 Oct close
The people’s newsroom

Science & TechAgriculture

Indian schoolgirl Amina Nasreen wins World Food Prize youth award in Iowa

She was one of seven Indian high school students who presented research on food security at the Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, where India's farm science academy also signed a pact with a US counterpart.

From the editorial desk · Des MoinesPublished
The World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in Des Moines (file photo)
The World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in Des Moines (file photo)Photo: Bohao Zhao / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Key points

  1. Amina Nasreen A.S. won the Global Youth Institute award and a US$500 prize.
  2. She was one of seven Indian high school students picked through NAAS and the World Food Prize Foundation.
  3. NAAS signed an MoU with the US Council for Agricultural Science and Technology.

An Indian high school student, Amina Nasreen A.S., has won the Global Youth Institute award at the World Food Prize Foundation’s annual gathering in Des Moines, Iowa, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.

She was one of seven Indian high school students chosen through a joint selection process run by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) in New Delhi and the foundation. The students presented research papers on food security at the 2026 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue, held from 20 to 22 October under the theme “Before Hunger Wins”. The award carries a cash prize of US$500.

India’s academy at the dialogue

NAAS ran an exhibition stall of its own and ICAR publications and held a roundtable on agricultural higher education. It also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) in the United States.

Dr M. L. Jat, the NAAS president, who is also Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of ICAR, addressed the roundtable online. He called for agricultural higher education to be reshaped so graduates are ready for climate change, the degradation of land and water, the loss of biodiversity and rising demand for nutritious food.

He urged a move away from teaching built only around raising production, towards an approach that covers the whole agri-food system and its value chains, and he called for closer links between universities and industry and with the Indian diaspora.

The documents