World Food Prize 2021

A global nutrition expert of Indian descent, Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted has won the prestigious 2021 World Food Prize for her ground breaking research in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems.

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Thilsted’s trailblazing research on small native fish species in Bangladesh led to the development of nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquatic food systems at all levels, from the farm to food processing to final consumers, resulting in improved diets for millions of the most vulnerable people in Asia and Africa.

Thilsted, who is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and a citizen of Denmark, was born in 1949 in the Caribbean island of Trinidad in the small village of Reform. Most of the inhabitants, including her family, were descendants of Indian Hindu migrants brought to Trinidad to engage in agricultural labour.