Pedro A. Sanchez
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Pedro A. Sanchez (b. 1940) is a Cuban-American soil scientist. He is Director of the Program on Tropical Agriculture at Columbia University and previously taught at North Carolina State University. He went to South America and Africa to implement soil fertility practices that were sustainable and economically viable for impoverished farmers. He is well-known for promoting agroforestry, which is based on leguminous trees as method of improving soil fertility. He was a key contributor to improving rice yields in Peru through the introduction of the Imidazolinone-Resistant (IR) varieties of rice in the 70's.
He won the World Food Prize in 2002 and the MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Award' in 2003. In addition to numerous scientific papers, he has authored 'Properties and management of soils in the tropics' (1976) and 'Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done (UN Millennium Project)', coauthored with M. S. Swaminathan, Philip Dobie, and Nalan Yuksel (2005), ISBN 1-84407-220-7. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America.
[edit] Further reading
- McMurray, Emmily J., ed. Notable 20th Century Scientists. Detroit, MI: Gale Reaserch Inc. 1995
[edit] External links
- Tropical Agriculture Program at The Earth Institute at Columbia University
- Career summary
- Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done
- Earth Institute Bio
| Honorary titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Per Pinstrup-Andersen |
World Food Prize 2002 |
Succeeded by Catherine Bertini |
