donated USD $23.7 million (RAND 255 million), as part of a joint three-year initiative between HGBF, the Nature Conservation Trust (NCT) and South African National Parks (SANParks), to combat the poaching of Rhino in South Africa. The HGBF has committed $200 million to develop the municipality of Tibú, which has the second largest coca crop in Colombia, and to help local farmers to substitute growing coca with legal crops like cacao. The HGBF was one of five philanthropic groups that received a combined $2.9 billion of Class B shares in Berkshire Hathaway from Warren Buffett in July 2020 Awards Buffett has received the Order of the Aztec Eagle Award, the highest honor bestowed on a foreign citizen by the Mexican Government, an honorary PhD from Lincoln College and Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Penn State University. and has been recognized by the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation in Agriculture as one of the most distinguished individuals in agriculture. He has also won the Will Owen Jones Distinguished Journalist of the Year Award, World Ecology Award, George McGovern Leadership Award, National Farmers Union Meritorious Service to Humanity Award, Columbia University Global Leadership Award, Leader in Agriculture Award from Agriculture Future of America, and Special Service Award from the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development, and the International Quality of Life Award. Buffett was among the nine people who were awarded the Igihango medal by Rwandan President Paul Kagame in 2017. See also Warren Buffett (father) Susan Buffett (mother) Peter Buffett (brother) Astrid Menks Buffett (stepmother) Howard Warren Buffett (son) References External links Atlantic profile Bloomberg video: Howard G. Buffett interview (2011) on world agriculture, his endeavors, his philosophy. Wall Street Journal Video: Howard Buffett is working against African famine. Website Of Howard Graham Buffett 1954 births Living people American business writers American conservationists Farmers from Illinois Place of birth missing (living people) Philanthropists from Illinois American photographers Howard Graham Buffett Businesspeople from Illinois Businesspeople from Omaha, Nebraska Businesspeople in agriculture Conagra Brands County supervisors and commissioners in Nebraska People from Decatur, Illinois Writers from Chicago Writers from Omaha, Nebraska Farmers from Nebraska Ambassadors of supra-national bodies World Food Programme people People from Tekamah, Nebraska