A Japanese professor of agriculture, and a pioneer of agricultural economics who made important contributions to development of agricultural science and research and to charting Japanese agricultural policies.

A Sri Lankan who founded a movement that mobilized thousands of people using the idea of voluntary service based on truth, non-violence and self-denial

A research and education center established to reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers.

A cytogeneticist from India who made major advances in breeding sturdier, more productive and better quality plant types

An economist who worked to enlarge Japan's consciousness of the Asian and Pacific community of which it must be a part through his writing, training economists, and providing officials, company executives and journalists with economic information

A Dutch-Indonesian agriculturist who influenced a whole generation of farmers to adopt new technologies that increased agricultural yield

A scientist and first Malaysian to head the Chemistry Division in 1964 and later became the Director of the Institute, in 1966. Led The Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRIM) showing that farmers in developing lands, guided by effective application of systematized knowledge and organization, can compete with great, multinational corporations and safeguard their means of livelihood

A Negrense whose socio-economic initiatives in behalf of the settler farmers were capped in August 1969 with the inauguration of the Daconcogon Sugar and Rice Milling Company

A Catholic bishop and social activist who lived in Bacolod in Negros Occidental in the Philippines