The founder and chief executive of the Scots-based Mary's Meals charity has been named among the world's most influential people in the world.
Former Argyll salmon farmer Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was listed by TIME Magazine in its 2015 list for setting up school feeding projects in some of the world's poorest communities.
The annual list includes many of the world's most inspiring individuals, with 2015's edition also honouring such influencers as President Barack Obama, Pope Francis, Malala Yousafzai and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
Mr MacFarlane-Barrow said: "It's wonderful to be able to accept this honour on behalf of the thousands of people all around the world, who together are working to realise the Mary's Meals vision - that every child should be able to receive at least one meal every day in their place of education.
"Today Mary's Meals is feeding 989,791 children every school day across 12 countries but, with 57 million children around the world out of school and hundreds of millions suffering as a result of chronic hunger, our work is only just beginning. I'd like to invite others to join the Mary's Meals movement, so that no child today will be without food and no child should miss school because of poverty."
Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister and now UN special envoy for global education, has written the tribute to Magnus for TIME, saying: "His work began in Bosnia, but a visit to Malawi, where a child told him his dream was having enough to eat, cemented his mission: to get thousands of girls and boys to come to school by providing a meal. The impact has been breath-taking. [School] attendance figures have risen, by as much as 50 per cent in some areas."
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