Fukuoka Grand Prize for 2021
July 1 , 2021
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- The Journalist Palagummi Sainath has been awarded the Fukuoka Grand Prize for 2021.
- He is a committed journalist who has continued to investigate impoverished farming villages in India.
- The award was established by Japan’s Fukuoka city and the Fukuoka City International Foundation.
- It is given to individuals and organisations for their work in preserving Asian culture.
- He received the United Nation’s Food & Agriculture Organization’s Boerma Prize in 2001.
- He also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for outstanding contribution to Asian journalism in 2007.
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