Pedro Sanchez

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Pedro A. Sanchez (b. 1940), is a Cuban-American soil scientist. He is Director of the Program on Tropical Agriculture at Columbia University and previously taught at North Carolina State University. He went to South America and Africa to implement soil fertility practices that were sustainable and economically viable for impoverished farmers. He is well-known for promoting agroforestry, which is based on leguminous trees as method of improving soil fertility.

He won the World Food Prize in 2002 and the MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Award' in 2003. In addition to numerous scientific papers, he has authored 'Properties and management of soils in the tropics' (1976) and 'Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done (Un Millennium Project)', coauthored with M. S. Swaminathan, Philip Dobie, and Nalan Yuksel (2005), ISBN 1844072207. He is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America.

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