{"id":1799,"date":"2020-12-10T13:17:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=137160"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:17:25","slug":"food-is-the-pathway-to-peace-world-food-programme-wins-nobel-peace-prize-warns-of-hunger-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/10\/food-is-the-pathway-to-peace-world-food-programme-wins-nobel-peace-prize-warns-of-hunger-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Is the Pathway to Peace: World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize &amp; Warns of Hunger Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2020\/12\/10\/2020_nobel_prize_world_food_programme\"><img style=\"float:right;padding-left:5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/44\/55744\/w320\/SEG1-WFP-NobelPrize-1.jpg\" alt=\"Seg1 wfp nobelprize 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Food Programme, the world&#8217;s largest humanitarian organization dealing with hunger and food security, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today, with its executive director David Beasley warning that the combination of conflict, climate crisis and <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>-19 could push 270 million people to the brink of starvation. In his acceptance speech, Beasley said, &#8220;Because of so many wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon, and a global health pandemic that makes all of that exponentially worse, 270 million people are marching toward starvation. Failure to address their needs will cause a hunger pandemic which will dwarf the impact of <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/10\/food-is-the-pathway-to-peace-world-food-programme-wins-nobel-peace-prize-warns-of-hunger-pandemic\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Food Programme, the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization dealing with hunger and food security, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today, with its executive director David Beasley warning\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}