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Today, we celebrate the World Food Day (WFD) along with the rest of the world. The day is celebrated in honour of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), now 75 years ago, as a way to promote awareness and action on issues of hunger and malnutrition. The FAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger by achieving food security for all and making sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. Coincidentally, exactly a week ago, the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The WFP is also an agency of the UN that shares a common vision with the FAO. The only distinction is that it is remarkably humanitarian. 
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