Modadugu Vijay Gupta, born in 1939, is an Indian biologist and fisheries scientist considered a pioneer of the blue revolution in Southeast Asia. He was awarded the World Food Prize in 2005 for developing and disseminating low cost techniques for freshwater fish farming, using tilapia species, among the rural poor, and in 2015 he was selected for the first Sunhak Peace Prize for creating an aquaculture system for poor rural populations across Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
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Defining ContributionPioneered low-cost, small-scale freshwater aquaculture techniques across South and Southeast Asia, driving a blue revolution that raised the protein and mineral intake of over a million of the world's poorest families; awarded the 2005 World Food Prize. 1 Connections
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1. World Food Prize: Modadugu Vijay Gupta (2005)
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Born in India in 1939
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As a prime architect of a blue revolution in Asia and around the globe, Dr. Gupta has increased the protein and mineral content in the diets of over one million of the world's most impoverished families.
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He was awarded the World Food Prize in 2005, for development and dissemination of low-cost techniques for freshwater fish farming (using tilapia species) by the rural poor.
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Modadugu Vijay Gupta (17 August 1939) is an Indian biologist and fisheries scientist.
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