Norman Borlaug Award :
New Delhi-based social scientist Ms. Aditi Mukherji, on August 28, 2012, became the first
Indian winner of the prestigious $10,000 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and
Application given by the World Food Prize Foundation. Ms. Mukherji, a researcher at the
International Water Management Institute in New Delhi, was chosen for her work on groundwater
resources in agriculture, leading to policy changes benefiting farmers in West Bengal.
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