Nobel Peace Prize 2020: World Food Programme awarded for 'its efforts to combat hunger'

bel Peace Prize 2020 has been awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger and humanitarian contribution in conflict-affected areas. United Nations’ food relief ncy is world’s largest humanitarian organisation dressing hunger and promoting food security. 

It received coveted 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 use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict."

rwegian bel Committee said in a statement that it wishes to turn eyes of world towards millions of people who suffer from or face threat of hunger. It highlighted WFP’s role in multilateral cooperation on making food security an instrument of peace. vel Committee furr said that UN ncy has me a strong contribution towards mobilising UN Member States to combat use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.

“ work of World Food Programme to benefit of humankind is an endeavour that all nations of world should be able to endorse and support,” committee ted.

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Extensive humanitarian work

bel Committee listed ncy’s work in past few years, including assistance to close to 100 million people in 88 countries, in 2019, who are victims of acute food insecurity and hunger. It mired WFP’s impressive ability to intensify its efforts in face of pandemic. committee furr said that organisation contributes daily to vancing fraternity of nations referred to in Alfred bel’s will.

In April, WFP h warned that world could witness multiple famines of “biblical proportion” within a few months if nations don’t prepare and act immediately. dressing a virtual session of UN Security Council, top WFP official David Beasley said that world is on verge of a hunger pandemic due to coronavirus outbreak.

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