Roy Prosterman, professor emeritus of the 天美影视传媒 , founded聽, an聽international land reform agency a half-century ago. Today, Landesa was honored with a聽prestigious Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The prize comes聽with a $2 million cash award.
Prosterman is delighted that the award will help continue Landesa’s important work.聽鈥淚t聽will be extremely helpful and will lead, I鈥檓 sure, to a great deal of coverage of land and the land issue,鈥� Prosterman said. 鈥淭he award itself will be unrestricted and so it will allow us to work in places where it might otherwise take an extended period of time to get funding earmarked to do it.鈥�