Now his work has earned him this year's World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines,Iowa.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer,Iowa."

VOA: special.2009.02.23

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Iowa State University horticulture specialist Cindy Haynes suggests planting the seeds one and one-quarter centimeters deep.

VOA: special.2009.02.17

Norman Ernest Borlaug was born to Norwegian-American parents in rural Iowa on March twenty-fifth, nineteen fourteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Shortly after Borlaug's death, billionaire Bill Gates spoke at the World Food Prize symposium in Iowa.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Professor Cindy Haynes at Iowa State University suggests planting the seeds one and one-quarter centimeters deep.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

After she graduated from Georgia State College for women, she asked to be accepted at a writing program at the State University of Iowa.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

Yet one American newspaper says he described himself simply as a "corn-fed,country-bred Iowa boy."

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Senator William Allison, a Republican from Iowa, proposed a different tariff bill.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Timothy Barrett of Iowa City, Iowa,is both an artist and scientist.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The privately supported prize will be awarded in Des Moines,Iowa,in October.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

She was a journalism graduate of the University of Iowa.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Jack Feldman is from Iowa in the American Midwest.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Five states permit it: Connecticut,Iowa,Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Iowa's nickname, the "Hawkeye State,"

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Iowa National Guard veteran Kyle Hoefling took off from work to join a rally the night before Mr.Obama's visit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Borlaug was born in the midwestern state of Iowa in 1914 and attended the University of Minnesota agricultural school.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The District of Columbia now joins five states -- Connecticut,Iowa,Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont -- with a law legalizing same sex marriage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

He will go to the central state of Iowa on Thursday, to try to convince a deeply divided country of the plan's merits.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

In May 2007, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama announced his plan for health care reform at the University of Iowa's medical school in Iowa City.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Iowa City is the first stop of many President Obama is expected to make in the coming months to promote the health care package.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

But Iowa Democrat Alan Bohanan says he does not think that the deeply divisive issue will lead to significant changes in the House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Pilgrims from around the world looked on,including Paul Edelman from the U.S.state of Iowa.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Control over our lives!" That wasat a recent meeting in Iowa.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12