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Mariangela Hungria, PhD, a scientist whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural powerhouse, has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate. She will receive a $500,000 award for her work to harness biological processes to sustainably improve crop nutrition, yields and productivity.
Hungria, a microbiologist from São Paulo, has developed dozens of biological seed and soil treatments that help crops source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly increasing yields of major crops while also reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Her products are estimated to have been used across more than 40 million hectares in Brazil, saving farmers up to $40 billion a year in input costs while avoiding more than 180 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions per year.
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