This article appeared in the Associated Press

June 13, 2008

Dole, McGovern named winners of World Food Prize

Former U.S. Senators and presidential candidates Bob Dole and George McGovern are the winners of the 2008 World Food Prize.

Dole and McGovern will share a $250,000 cash prize and will be formally honored at a ceremony in Des Moines in October. They are being honored for the George McGovern-Robert Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.

The program, which was established in 2000, has provided meals to more than 22 million children in 41 countries.

Dr. Norman Borlaug, who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in spurring a so-called "Green Revolution," created The World Food Prize to honor people who made improvements in food quantity and availability. The prize, sometimes known as the Nobel Prize of food, was first given in 1986.