World Food Programme: Know history and contribution of 2020 Nobel Peace Prize winner

World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded 2020 bel Peace Prize on October 9 for its efforts to combat hunger and improving conditions of conflict-ridden areas. Established in 1961, Rome-based United Nations’ food-assistance branch remains world’s largest humanitarian organisation dressing hunger and promoting food security.

WFP was created as an experiment to provide food assistance through UN system. WFP was initially tasked with emergency aid and rehabilitation, however, in 1963, aid group launched its first development programme for Nubians in Sudan. In 1965, WFP was enshrined as a full-fledged UN programme and was to last for “as long as multilateral food aid is found feasible and desirable”.

During long famines in African’s Sahel region in 1970s, WFP used camels, cars, and aircraft to provide food aid. It provided 2 million tons of food during Ethiopian famine of 1984 and year later, released 1.5 million tons of food under Operation Lifeline Sudan. 20-aircraft and three-sorties a day airdrop helped save hundreds of thousands of lives.

WFP is also largest humanitarian organisation implementing school feeding programmes worldwide and in 2019, it provided school meals to more than 17.3 million children in 50 countries. aid group says that it meets people’s food needs through cash-based transfers that allow people y serve to choose and shop for ir own food locally.

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Record assistance

UN ncy is governed by a 36-member Executive Board which works closely with its two Rome-based sister organizations, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and International Fund for Agricultural Development. It partners with over 1,000 national and international NGOs to provide food assistance and tackle underlying causes of hunger. It has more than 17,000 staff worldwide and raised a record-breaking $8 billion in 2019.

rwegian bel Committee highlighted WFP’s role in multilateral cooperation on making food security an "instrument of peace." 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. bel Committee has 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.

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