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Nobel laureates warn of global food security threat
More than 150 Nobel and World Food Prize laureates have signed an open letter calling for “moonshot” efforts to ramp up food production before an impending world hunger catastrophe. The letter, titled "Hunger’s Tipping Point: An Urgent Call to Transform Food and Nutrition Security," stated that 700 million people are food insecure and desperately poor, with about half that number not knowing where their next meal is coming from.
Bangladesh Nobel winner Yunus says firms forcefully taken over
Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said several of his firms were forcefully taken over, weeks after his conviction in a criminal case his supporters say was politically motivated.
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WATCH: Three ’natural experiments' pioneers win 2021 Nobel economics prize
Et and Guido Iid Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize for pioneering the use of ’natural experiments’ to understand the causal effects of economic policy and other events.
No women named among 2021 Nobel Prize winners yet, with just two more awards to be announced
With just two prizes still to be announced, the Peace Prize and the Economy Prize, all eyes are on the Norwegian Nobel Committee to see if a woman will be among this year’s winners.
Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who lives in Britain, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said.