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UN food agency receives Nobel Peace Prize
11 Dec 2020
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The World Food Program was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, David Beasley, poses with the diploma and medal of the Nobel Peace Prize in Rome, Italy, on December 10, 2020. (Reuters)
Calling food the “pathway to peace,” the head of the UN World Food Program has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at the agency s headquarters in Rome, instead of in Oslo, Norway, in a break with pomp-filled tradition amid the Covid-19 pandemic.