Nobel Peace Prize 2020 awarded to World Food Programme

World Food Programme (WFP) has been awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humanitarian organization focused on hunger and food security.

World Food Programme was founded in 1961, it is headquartered in Rome.

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 WFP is the UN’s primary instrument for realising this goal.

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.