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World Food Prize - About

World Food Prize - About
MSU Extension - Michigan Youth Institute
- The World Food Prize Michigan Youth Institute is a one-day event that gives high school students the opportunity to present research and recommendations on how to solve key global challenges.
- Students who are in grades 7 through 12 during the 2024-2025 school year are eligible to register by submitting a three to five page paper.
Michigan Youth Institute
The Michigan Youth Institute is a life-changing experience coordinated by Michigan State University where students in grades 7-12 engage with local leaders and experts on critical global challenges, participate in hands-on activities, and explore exciting ways to make a difference in Michigan and around the world.

Global Challenge Paper Instructions, 2025
World Food Prize Michigan Youth Institute SPIN Club
This outline is for a nine-week SPIN Club (World Food Prize) program focused on the research, writing and paper submission. Each meeting should be one hour/one class period in length. This outline may be expanded or condensed to fit a variety of audiences and venues.

Healthy or Wealthy? Food and Consumer Science Curriculum
This Google Drive contains PDFs of assignments, activities, videos, etc. on the topic of Healthy or Wealthy. July 5,2019.
WFP Foundation Educator Resources
"Introducing World Food Prize Teacher Resources! All materials are available at no cost to educators and are designed to bring global learning concepts into your classroom, club, or community."
Meeting Today’s Educational Standards and Practices
Video: The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of the man who would not only solve India’s famine problem, but would go on to lead a “Green Revolution” of worldwide agriculture programs, saving countless lives. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work but spent the rest of his life watching his methods and achievements come under increasing fire.
“The World Food Prize.” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. 1992
Unknown. 1992. “The World Food Prize.” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library.
This document describes the WFP's origins and winners up through the sixth award presented in 1992.

Posters

WFP Poster instructions, 2025
You've written your paper, now, why not make a poster?
PowerPoint Tip Sheet: Printing to the MakeCentral HP Plotter (pdf)
This tip sheet provides instructions for setting up printing to the Hollander MakeCentral Plotter using PowerPoint from the Full Applications computers on 2 West

Event Information

Michigan Youth Institute at MSU, May 8, 2025
- The World Food Prize Michigan Youth Institute is a one-day event that gives high school students the opportunity to present research and recommendations on how to solve key global challenges.
- Online registration for youth participants and their adult teachers or mentors will begin on February 1, 2005.
- Registration deadline: March 15, 2025
- When and where: May 8, 2025, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Participants have the option of joining the World Food Prize Michigan Youth Institute in person on the campus of MSU in East Lansing or by participating from anywhere else using Zoom video/web conference technology.

Contacts

For more information on how to get involved with the 2025 Michigan Youth Institute, contact:
Brian Wibby, M.S.S.A., Extension Educator, Email: wibby-at-msu.edu. Phone: (906) 251-1417
or
Debra Barrett, Senior Extension Educator, Email: smithde6-at-msu.edu. Phone: (269) 240-1986

General Country Resources

Geography - Explora, Ebesco database
SCROLL DOWN to the Geography image and click that to get to the countries.
Connect to MeL using a personal library card from your local school or public library.
MAS Complete
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 540 popular, high school magazines. MAS Complete also provides more than 440 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Country Studies This link opens in a new window
Prepared by the Library of Congress and the Department of Defense, most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
NOTE: Some of these are pretty old, so look at the date of publication!

globalEDGE Insights By Country
This is your source for statistical data for nearly every country around the world. In addition to statistics, historical, economic, and political conditions are available.
The World Factbook
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Infoplease
Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with facts.
GIEWS Country Analysis
The Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture provides country analyses in the sections: GIEWS Country Briefs, Countries in Crisis Requiring External Assistance for Food, Countries with Unfavourable Prospects for Current Crops, and Domestic Price Warnings.
GIEWS Reports
Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture reports touch on various topics, such as, Crop Prospects and Food Situations, Food Market and Prices, Weather and Climate, and others.
UNESCO Digital Library
Hundreds of collections and handbooks on all topics.

Teens and Cultures

Teen Lives Around the World: a Global Encyclopedia [2 Volumes] by Karen Wells (Editor)
ISBN: 9781440852459
Publication Date: 2019
This encyclopedia gives a different perspective based on the experiences of teens in 60 countries. Each entry gives the reader a brief sketch of a country to helps readers to understand how geography, history, economics, and politics shape teen life. The entries include a country overview and cover the following topics: Schooling and Education; Extracurricular Activities: Art, Music, and Sports; Family and Social Life; Religions and Cultural Rites of Passage; Rights and Legal Status; and Issues Today.
"My teenage Life in...[country name]", a set of eBooks
Publication Date: 2018
In the search bar, paste in: "My teenage Life in" to find the individual books. This unique series looks at 11 countries through the eyes of both expert authors and real-life teens who live in those countries. The author provides background information on the history, culture, customs, politics, and economy of the country, while the teen describes for readers their points of view on teen life there. The teen authors not only inform about facts, but explore their own thoughts on ideas on the future of their nations.
Countries are: Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Russia, South Africa
Countries, Peoples and Cultures - Central & South America by Salem Press
ISBN: 9781619257887
Publication Date: 2015
Countries, Peoples and Cultures - Central and Southeast Asia by Salem Press
ISBN: 9781619257924
Publication Date: 2015
Countries, Peoples & Cultures - Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe by Salem Press
ISBN: 9781619257948
Publication Date: 2015-11-30
Countries, Peoples & Cultures - Middle East and North Africa by Salem Press
ISBN: 9781619257986
Publication Date: 2015
Countries, Peoples & Cultures - Western Europe by Salem Press
ISBN: 9781619257962
Publication Date: 2015

MeL Article Databases for Teens
MeL(Michigan electronic Library) article databases and other resources are open to Michigan residents with a library card from your local library.

In Michigan - access to Resources

MeL Article Databases for Teens
MeL(Michigan electronic Library) article databases and other resources are open to Michigan residents with a library card from your local library.
MeL ebooks, audiobooks, movies
MeL(Michigan electronic Library) ebooks, audiobooks and other resources are open to Michigan residents with a library card from your local library. Overdirve and Hoopla are the two platforms; audiobooks can be downloaded in mp3 format.
MeL assistance
The best way to get help with MeL is by contacting your local library.

Hunger Fighters Unite!

The Hunger Fighter Unite! lesson plan is a simulation style activity that blends youth leadership, cultural engagement, and career exploration to cultivate a deeper understanding of food and food security as youth take on one of the world's greatest challenges.

Lesson Plan Resources:

Additional Resources

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.

American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 This link opens in a new window
This collection consists of approximately 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States between 1891 and 1936 by a group of American botanists. The photos provide an overview of important representative natural landscapes across the nation. Many were taken in Michigan. They can be used in reports and papers, but credit must be given in the paper.

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Use the browse feature or search for a particular topic. Most WFP topics are covered.

United Nations: Official Documents This link opens in a new window
At the bottom of the sites is a list of Issues / Campaigns; many topics are listed.

Writing Tools

Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Guide, 8th ed.
A guide to MLA style by Purdue University OWL. Extensive examples available.
APA Formatting and Style Guide, 7th ed. (Purdue OWL)
Basic guidance on preparing APA 7th ed. in-text and reference list citations.
Easybib.com
Be sure to scroll down this webpage to see more MLA & APA help.

Science at MSU

Science on a Sphere, MSU Museum
Imagine yourself in a darkened museum gallery. Gradually, four projectors illuminate a giant globe, seeming to float in front of you. You see a spectacular animation, showing geophysical, environmental, and cultural data projected on the globe. You watch our spinning planet - our tiny “blue marble" - from outer space. Then, the image instantly transforms into the rotating sphere of Mars, a history of cities on Earth, or even the interior of a biological cell. Experience Science On a Sphere for yourself!

Global Food Security Challenge Curriculum

Global Food Security Challenge Curriculum
Complete this form to access the free teacher guide, modules, and assessment tools. This curriculum is brought to you by Growing Hope Globally in partnership with the World Food Prize Foundation and was developed by the ABN Educational Consulting Group (J. Anderson, M. Bloom, and R. Newhouse) in 2017.

Agriculture Research Guide: World Food Prize

World Food Prize - Guide information