Nobel Peace Prize: Spotlight on hunger and conflict

By awarding the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organisation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has shed the much-needed spotlight on hunger and conflict. The Committee described the link between hunger and conflict as a vicious circle in which "war and conflict can cause food insecurity and hunger, just as hunger and food insecurity can cause latent conflicts to flare up and trigger the use of violence."