Nobel Prize Stockholm/IBNS: Food-assistance branch of the United Nations, World Food Programme (WFP), won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The WFP has been awarded the prize "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict."
WFP has put up a tweet stating, "Deepest thanks for honouring the World Food Programme with the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize."
Deepest thanks @NobelPrize for honouring the World Food Programme with the 2020 #NobelPeacePrize.
— World Food Programme (@WFP) October 9, 2020
This is a powerful reminder to the world that peace and #ZeroHunger go hand-in-hand. https://t.co/1CYXPcnvlF
This is a powerful reminder to the world that peace and #ZeroHunger go hand-in-hand.
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation addressing hunger and promoting food security.
In 2019, the WFP provided assistance to close to 100 million people in 88 countries who are victims of acute food insecurity and hunger.
In 2015, eradicating hunger was adopted as one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The WFP is the UN’s primary instrument for realising this goal. In recent years, the situation has taken a negative turn.
In 2019, 135 million people suffered from acute hunger, the highest number in many years. Most of the increase was caused by war and armed conflict.
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