URBANA, Illinois: This year, the Nobel Peace Prize recognized the inextricable link between hunger and conflict. With climate change as a further complicating factor, research, investment, and coordination with local farmers are critical for ensuring food security for all.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for “its efforts to combat hunger” and “bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas.” In a world with over 850 million people who are hungry, a number that has increased because of Covid-19, recognizing and awarding a Nobel Prize to an organization that toils at the frontline of the fight to end hunger is timely.

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