The 2011 Right Livelihood Awards were handed out in Stockholm on Monday to four recipients: entrepreneur Huang Ming of China, for his work on solar energy; the activist Jacqueline Moudeina of Chad for her efforts “to win justice for the victims of the former dictatorship in Chad and to increase awareness and observance of human rights in Africa”; the midwife Ina May Gaskin of the United States “for her whole-life’s work teaching and advocating safe, woman-centered childbirth methods that best promote the physical and mental health of mother and child”; and the group GRAIN for its “worldwide work to protect the livelihoods and rights of farming communities and to expose the massive purchases of farmland in developing countries by foreign financial interests.” The Right Livelihood Awards are awarded annually and are widely known as the “alternative Nobel Prize.”