2020 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 9 October 2020.

The citation

The citation reads: "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 laureate

The World Food Programme was founded in 1961.

Why it matters

The United Nations World Food Programme provides food to millions of people each year. The committee said the coronavirus pandemic had added to hunger around the world.

The prize

The prize is worth 10 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.