Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig was named the winner of this year’s $250,000 World Food Prize for her work in modeling climate change impacts on worldwide food production. The World Food Prize acknowledges researchers whose achievements lessen hunger and promote food security across the world.
Founder of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project, a network of climate and food system modelers, Dr. Rosenzweig’s research has helped decision-makers in over 90 countries.
“I am honored to announce the selection of Dr. Rosenzweig as the 2022 Laureate given the tremendous contributions of her career over the last four decades,” said Barbara Stinson, president of the World Food Prize Foundation, in a statement. “Dr. Rosenzweig has brought powerful computational tools into practical application in agriculture and food systems. Her work has shaped our understanding of the relationship between food systems and climate change. She advanced the use of multiple models and created networks of scientists to use them. These innovations have contributed to many countries’ ability to respond effectively to the crisis we face in climate change.”
Dr. Rozenweig has participated in three global assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and her research has been used by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was later led to the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
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