| aureate | Achievement | | 2004 | Prof. Yuan Longping, China | Development of hybrid rice varieties |
| 004 | Dr. Monty Jones, Sierra Leone | Development of New Rice for Africa (NERICA), with the potential to increase rice yields in Africa increasing yields. |
| 003 | Catherine Bertini, United States | Transforming the World Food Programme from a development assistance program to the largest and most effective humanitarian food relief organization |
| 002 | Dr. Pedro A. Sanchez, United States/Cuba | Development of methods to restore fertility to degraded soils in Africa and South America. |
| 001 | Dr. Per Pinstrup Andersen, Denmark | Establishment of "Food For Education" programs in which the families receive food subsidies when children stay in school. |
| 000 | Dr. Evangelina Villegas, Mexico and Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, India. | Developing high quality protein maize (QPM). |
| 999 | Dr. Walter Plowright, United Kingdom | Developing a vaccine against the cattle plague, rinderpest. |
| 998 | B.R. Barwale, India. | Founder of independent seed company Mahyco, strengthening seed supply and distribution through out India. |
| 997 | Dr. Ray F. Smith, United States and Dr. Perry Adkisson, United States. | Developing the concept of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which employs various techniques to protect crops from insect damage in an environmentally sustainable manner. |
| 996 | Dr. Henry Beachell, United States and Dr. Gurdev Khush, India | Developing rice lines that doubled rice production in Asia since their development. |
| 995 | Dr. Hans R. Herren, Switzerland | Developing a pest control program for the cassava mealybug, which could destroy African cassava crop. |
| 994 | Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh. | Founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, developed innovative small loan programs for the poor, providing millions of people access to more food and better nutrition. |
| 993 | He Kang, China. | Initiation of reforms while head of the Ministry of Agriculture which made China self-sufficient for food production. |
| 992 | Dr. Edward F. Knipling, United States and Dr. Raymond Bushland, United States | Developing the sterile insect technique (SIT) to control insect parasites that harm the world's food supply. |
| 991 | Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw, United States | Human nutrition studies that led to the use of protein-rich food products to combat malnutrition in developing countries. |
| 990 | Dr. John Niederhauser, United States | Discovering a durable resistance to potato late blight. |
| 989 | Dr. Verghese Kurien, India. | Turned the milksheds of India into the Amul cooperatives that produce, process, and market milk in the urban centres of that country. |
| 988 | Dr. Robert F. Chandler, United States | Work with the International Rice Research Institute and his leadership in developing tropical rice varieties that doubled and tripled the yields beyond traditional varieties. |
| 987 | Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, India | Introducing high-yielding wheat and rice varieties to India starting India's Green Revolution |