The World Food Programme and the Nobel Peace Prize 2020

Abstract

This article looks at some of the central strategies and activities of the WFP to combat hunger as well as identifying funding sources and beneficiaries. It also addresses some important areas and aspects where the WFP is not present–but where it ought to be present–in order to address the root causes of world hunger and its associated conflicts. In particular, this discussion is related to the conditions of agricultural smallholders and rural people. On this basis, an attempt is made to assess whether the WFP was worthy of the Nobel Prize for Peace that it received in 2020.