Per Pinstrup-Andersen
{{Short description|Danish economist}}
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Per Pinstrup-Andersen (born 1939) is a Danish economist and a Professor Emeritus at Cornell University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.human.cornell.edu/people/pp94|title = Per Pinstrup-Andersen}} Before retiring in 2013, he was the Howard Edward Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship at Cornell University.{{Cite web|url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/12/great-dane-colleagues-fete-pinstrup-andersen|title=Great Dane: Colleagues fete per Pinstrup-Andersen}} In 1992–2002, Pinstrup-Andersen was the Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20002009_laureates/2001_pinstrupandersen/|title = 2001: Pinstrup-Andersen - the World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World}} Pinstrup-Andersen received his PhD in 1969 from Oklahoma State University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20002009_laureates/2001_pinstrupandersen/|title = 2001: Pinstrup-Andersen - the World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World}} He is a recipient of both the Charles A. Black Award and the World Food Prize.
Research and impact
In 1998, Pinstrup-Andersen was awarded the Charles A. Black Award by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST).{{cite web |title=Charles A. Black Award Recipients |url=https://cast-science.org/charles-a-black-recipients/ |website=Council for Agricultural Science and Technology |language=en}}
In 2001 Pinstrup-Andersen won the World Food Prize for personally initiating the research effort which enabled several governments to reform their food subsidy programs and dramatically increase food availability to the severely impoverished.{{cite news |last1=Negro |first1=Jackie |title=Opening Doors to Food Policy Change: Per Pinstrup-Andersen's World Food Prize Journey |url=https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/88533/19420/opening_doors_to_food_policy_change_per_pinstrupandersens_world_food_prize_journey |work=www.worldfoodprize.org |date=2023-05-04 |language=en-us}}
The research that Pinstrup-Andersen initiated laid the foundation for the establishment of "Food For Education" programs in which the families receive food subsidies when children stay in school. Pinstrup-Andersen initiated a global effort to uplift those most at risk by formulating International Food Policy Research Institute's 2020 Vision Initiative which helped reverse the trend of decreasing global developmental assistance, and led to actions which have brought about an important reduction in world hunger and poverty levels.[http://www.worldfoodprize.org/laureates/Past/2001.htm The World Food Prize: 2001 Laureate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803003322/http://www.worldfoodprize.org/laureates/Past/2001.htm |date=2009-08-03 }}
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