我会常务理事刘彦随荣获发展中国家科学院（TWAS）科学奖!

Winners of 2018 TWAS Prizes announced   TWAS has announced the winners of the TWAS Prizes for 2018 in Trieste, Italy.  

TWAS Prizes are awarded in nine fields: Agricultural Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Mathematics, Medical Sciences, Physics, and Social Sciences. This year, there are 12 prize winners: one from Argentina; two from Brazil; three from China; two from India; one from Kenya; one from Mexico; one from South Africa and one from Turkey. The prize winners include four women.

Each TWAS Prize carries a cash award of USD15,000. The winners will lecture about their research at TWAS's 28th General Meeting in 2018, when they will also receive a plaque and the prize money.

LIU Yansui of China, for his contribution to improve government policies for rural development through innovation in rural land-use and targeted poverty-alleviation strategies in China.  

2018年发展中国家科学院(TWAS)奖在意大利的里雅斯特揭晓。来自阿根廷、巴西、中国、印度、肯尼亚、墨西哥、南非和土耳其的12名学者共同分享了9大科学领域的奖项，其中3位中国学者获奖。中国科学院地理资源所研究员、北京师范大学长江学者特聘教授刘彦随，因其在中国乡村发展与土地利用研究领域取得的杰出成就，荣膺社会学领域的TWAS科学奖（TWAS Prize in Social Sciences）。

(https://twas.org/article/winners-2018-twas-prizes-announced)