Prime Minister awarded the first African Green Revolution Yara Prize

OSLO-- The Board of the Yara Foundation has chosen to award the
first African Green Revolution Yara Prize, to the Prime Minister of
Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, for his contribution to improved food security and
human nutrition in ways that also protect the environment. The Yara Prize
will be presented by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the United
Nations Millennium Project at an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway on
September 3.

The Yara Foundation Board recognizes Prime Minister Meles’ decisive steps
towards increasing food production and reducing poverty in one of the
poorest countries of the developing world. He has brought about political
change in Ethiopia, and placed the rural poor first in the country’s
development strategies.