The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) “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.”
- 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 World Food Programme was an active participant in the diplomatic process that culminated in May 2018 in the UN Security Council’s unanimous adoption of Resolution 2417, which for the first time explicitly addressed the link between conflict and hunger.
World Food Programme
- It was created at the behest of US President Dwight Eisenhower as an experiment to provide food aid through the UN system.
- In 1965, WFP was enshrined as a fully-fledged UN programme.
- The World Food Programme (WFP) is governed by the WFP Executive Board, which consists of 36 Member States and provides intergovernmental support, direction and supervision of WFP’s activities.
- WFP relies entirely on voluntary contributions for its funding. Its principal donors are governments, but the organization also receive donations from the private sector and individuals.
(Source: Noble Prize Committee and World Food Programme)
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