Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 6/28/16


Two NC State alumni are among the four winners of the 2016 World Food Prize, one of the most important and coveted international awards given in agriculture.

Maria Andrade and Robert Mwanga, who received Ph.D.s in horticultural science from NC State in 1995 and 2001, respectively, joined Jan Low and Howarth Bouis as the 2016 World Food Prize laureates during an announcement and ceremony at the U.S. State Department today. Andrade and Mwanga breed orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties resistant to pests, drought and heat for sub-Saharan Africa.