Pedro Antonio Sanchez San Martin (1940 to 2026) was director of the Agriculture and Food Security Center and director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and served as co-chair of the United Nations Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. He was director general of the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1991 to 2001, and was professor emeritus of soil science and forestry at North Carolina State University. He received the 2002 World Food Prize.
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Defining ContributionPioneered scientific methods for restoring and managing tropical soils long considered unsuitable for farming, transforming degraded land into productive cropland across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia over six decades of work; awarded the 2002 World Food Prize. 2 Connections
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Pedro Antonio Sanchez San Martin (October 7, 1940 - January 12, 2026) was the director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center
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He was also professor emeritus of soil science and forestry at North Carolina State University and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
View the Source 2. World Food Prize Foundation: Remembering Pedro Sanchez
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A native of Cuba, he grew up on his family's farm outside Havana, traveling the country with his father, an agronomist.
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pioneered scientific approaches to increase productivity of tropical soils, long thought to be unsuitable for agriculture
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Wikidata Q742858, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source World Food Prize Foundation: Pedro A. Sanchez
World Food Prize FoundationIn Group: Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition Scientists, Laureate profileQuote, In Group: Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition Scientists, Laureate profile
Sanchez’s professional career has been dedicated to improving the management of tropical soils through integrated natural resource management approaches to achieve food security and reduce rural poverty while protecting and enhancing the environment.
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