The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), bagged the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 on Friday for its efforts to fight hunger hunger and help conflict affected areas by improving conditions for peace.
The organisation is believed to have helped about 97 million people in about 88 countries each year, and that one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat.
While accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in an online ceremony, the WFP warned the world of a hunger pandemic which could be way worse than Covid-19 pandemic.
“Because of so many wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon, and a global health pandemic that makes all of that exponentially worse, 270 million people are marching toward starvation,” WFP executive director David Beasley said.
He added that the failure to address these needs will result in a hunger pandemic which will overshadow the imapact of covid.
The announcement of the achievement was made on October 9 by committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen. The organization was conferred with the Nobel for its efforts “to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”.
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