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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) the winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. It was the prize by the Nobel Committee in Norway on Friday. The Nobel judges about why they the award to the WFP. They said the WFP got the award, "for its efforts to hunger" and "for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas". They said another reason was that the WFP , "as a driving force to the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict". The WFP tweeted: "We are deeply to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This an incredible recognition of the dedication of the WFP family, working to hunger every day in 80-plus countries."

The World Food Programme the largest humanitarian organization in the world. Last year, it help to more than 97 million people in 88 countries. Its workers and volunteers often in extremely dangerous conditions. These can in remote, hard-to-access areas of the world. Over two-thirds of its work in conflict-affected countries. People in war zones three times more likely to undernourished than those in countries without conflict. The COVID-19 pandemic has to global food insecurity. The WFP said: "There will likely 265 million starving people within a year." The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, the WFP "the world's first responder on the frontlines of food insecurity".