October 24, 2025
On October 19 and 20, 2016 World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Jan Low spent time with the students and faculty in the GRS program. Dr. Low delivered a World Food Prize Laureate Lecture titled, “Developing effective biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato value chains through a gender transformative integrated intervention”.
She also spent the day meeting with GRS students, faculty, and visiting the Horticulture Research Station and Agrivoltaics research projects.
Dr. Low was awarded the World Food Prize in 2016 in recognition of her work in developing biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato to address vitamin A deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa.
