UN World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 has been awarded to the World Food Programme 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, or WFP, is the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

The WFP is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations which was founded in 1961 following the Food and Agriculture Organization Conference in 1960.