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Bertini named 2003 World Food Prize Winner
Catherine Bertini, currently Under Secretary General of the United Nations, has been named the recipient of the 2003 World Food Prize.

Her selection was announced at the opening session of the 12th World Congress of Food Science and Technology in Chicago on July 16. Bertini is being honored for her critical leadership of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), which has saved millions of people from famine and death. The prize includes $250,000.

“Ms. Bertini …