Fazie Hasan Abed of Bangladesh is the
winner of this year’s World Food Prize.
He created the Bangladesh Rural
Advancement Committee in 1970, a nonprofit organization credited with helping
more than 150 million people out of poverty.
He started it as a temporary relief
organization to help the country recover from the 1970 typhoon that killed
about 500,000 people and the subsequent war fought in 1971 to win independence
from Pakistan.
