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The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 has awarded the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for its "efforts to fight hunger in the world."

"

Food is the best vaccine against chaos

", stressed the chairman of the Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen.

The WFP is a UN program that distributes food to support development and aid projects for refugees and displaced persons and also distributes food in emergency situations such as natural disasters or war.

For the Committee, this Program, which is based in Rome, plays a "

key role in multilateral cooperation

to make food security an instrument of peace, and has contributed to mobilizing UN member states to combat the use of of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict ".

In 2018 the award was awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, for his outreach efforts with Eritrea.

This year, which did not have a clear favorite, 211 individuals and 107 organizations were competing for the award but, according to tradition, their names will not be released for another 50 years.

The award, which consists of a gold medal, a diploma and ten million Swedish crowns (about 1.1 million dollars, about 950,000 euros) will be formally presented on December 10, the anniversary of the death of its founder, the Swedish businessman and philanthropist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).

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