Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta
India
Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta, Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate, is an Indian fisheries scientist who is also known as the “Architect of the Blue Revolution for Hunger Eradication.” He dramatically mitigated the Southeast Asia hunger crisis by spreading his methods of fish cultivation. Dr. Gupta focused on disseminating his aquaculture methods to impoverished rural women in Southeast Asia, thereby improving their income and nutrition, and status. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on fish genetics research, and established a global network to increase the world fish supply. In 2005, Dr. Gupta received the World Food Prize, considered the “Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture.”
