# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-05-15T00:00:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

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Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria, whose work boosts crop yields while slashing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting water pollution, is this year’s winner of the $500,000 World Food Prize.

Hungria’s biological seed and soil treatments enable wheat, corn and other major crops, including soybeans — Brazil’s top agricultural export — to source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly increasing yields while reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer.

The Des Moines-based World Food Prize Foundation announced Hungria as this year's winner on Tuesday, May 13. She'll officially receive the award, often referred to as the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for agriculture, in a ceremony at the Iowa Capitol on Oct 23.

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