This article appeared in the Kansas City Star

June 17, 2008

Bob Dole and George McGovern win World Food Prize

Former Sens. Bob Dole and George McGovern have won the World Food Prize for efforts to encourage feeding children at schools around the world.

The two one-time presidential nominees — Dole, of Kansas, was the GOP candidate in 1996 and McGovern, of South Dakota, the Democrats’ choice in 1972 — have long collaborated on efforts that create more markets for Midwestern crops and put meals on the plates of the poor.

They were awarded $250,000 from the World Food Prize Foundation last week for the international school-feeding program they established in 2000 that has put food in the mouths of more than 22 million children in 41 countries.

Those efforts have been credited for increases in school attendance.