Nobel of Agriculture: Brazilian Scientist Wins World Food Prize 2025

With over four decades of dedication to soil microbiology, Hungria is recognized for leading research aimed at partially or totally replacing chemical fertilizers with microorganisms that favor nitrogen fixation, phytohormone production, and phosphate and potassium rock solubilization. In an Embrapa publication, the researcher celebrates. "I am immensely happy, I still can't believe it, it is a great honor, a worldwide recognition. I believe my main contribution to mitigating world hunger has been my persistence that food production is essential, but must be done sustainably. It was a life dedicated to seeking high yields, but through the use of biologicals, partially or totally replacing chemical fertilizers. With this award, there is also recognition of the effort of Brazilian research towards an increasingly sustainable agriculture, favoring our image abroad," explains Mariangela Hungria. Among the advances coordinated by Hungria, the use of inoculation with nitrogen-fixing ...