Nobel Peace Prize awarded to UN’s World Food Programme

Nobel Committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen makes a statement at the Nobel Institute as part of the digital award ceremony for this year’s Peace Prize (Heiko Junge / NTB via AP)

The head of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at the agency’s headquarters in Rome.

WFP executive director David Beasley received the medal, which had been sent in a diplomatic pouch to Rome. He said the prize acknowledges “our work of using food to combat hunger, to mitigate against destabilisation of nations” and create stability and peace.