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WORLD World Food Prize Laureate and HarvestPlus founder Howarth Bouis has been named a Visiting Fellow to The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Banos, Philippines.
Under his fellowship at IRRI, Bouis will work for HarvestPlus on a part-time basis, as Founding Director and Ambassador At Large, continuing to help shape policy around biofortified crops. He will work with IRRI staff, faculty at the University of the Philippines Los Banos and the wider Philippine policy community on biofortification activities and policy research linking agriculture and nutrition.
Matthew Morell, Director-General of IRRI, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), under which Bouis will be hosted as a Visiting Fellow during 2017-18. The MOU was signed previously in Washington D.C. by IFPRI Director-General Shenggen Fan. Bouis, who stepped down as Director of HarvestPlus in 2016, is also currently an Institute Fellow at the Director-General’s office at IFPRI.
HarvestPlus Chief Executive Officer Bev Postma welcomed the appointment during her visit this week to IRRI headquarters.
“Howdy is the father of this groundbreaking science that has helped improve the lives of millions of people around the world,” she said. “He will continue to play an invaluable role at HarvestPlus in promoting biofortification to reduce poverty and hunger and improve the health of rice farmers and consumers.”
Bouis was awarded the 2016 World Food Prize for his pioneering work to end global hidden hunger through biofortification. He developed this concept in the early 1990s and has devoted his career to turning it into a global movement that currently reaches more than 4 million smallholder farming families in low-income countries.
The International Rice Research Institute is the world’s premier research organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger through rice science; improving the health and welfare of rice farmers and consumers; and protecting the rice-growing environment for future generations.
HarvestPlus is a Washington DC-based non-profit organization coordinated by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
More about Howarth Bouis
As director of HarvestPlus during 2003-2016, Bouis coordinated an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional effort to breed and disseminate micronutrient-rich staple food crops to reduce mineral and vitamin deficiencies among malnourished populations in developing countries. Since 1993, he has sought to promote biofortification globally. In 2016, Bouis was awarded the World Food Prize, in recognition of the accomplishments of the HarvestPlus team.
Bouis received his B.A. in economics from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Food Research Institute, a program in agricultural economics. His past research at the International Food Policy Research Institute (which he joined in 1982 as post-doctoral fellow) focused on understanding how economic factors affect food demand and nutrition outcomes, particularly in Asia.
During 1972-75, Bouis worked as a volunteer in the Philippines with Volunteers in Asia. In 1979, he was a doctoral fellow at IRRI; his dissertation title was “Rice Policy in the Philippines.” In 1990, he co-authored a book with Lawrence Haddad entitled “Agricultural commercialization, nutrition, and the rural poor: A study of Philippine farm households,” based on surveys undertaken in Bukidnon.
Howdy is married to Cristina Sison, a graduate of UPLB and a faculty member at the Institute of Human Nutrition and Food at UPLB.
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