Former presidents of Ghana and Brazil are this year's winners of the World Food Prize for their work to cut by half, the number of people in their countries who suffer from hunger. Former Ghana President John Kufuor and former Brazil President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva will split the $250,000 prize that comes with the honor this fall in Des Moines. Iowa native Norman Borlaug created the prize in 1986 honoring work to ease global hunger. Borlaug who died in 2009, won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
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