The WFP is the latest in a string of UN bodies and officials to have won the prestigious prize since the organisation's creation in 1945.

In 2001, the United Nations itself won the award together with then-secretary general Kofi Annan.

Here is a list of UN bodies and officials who have won the Nobel Peace Prize:

2020: World Food Programme (WFP)

2007: Al Gore (US) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

2005: UN International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt)

2001: Kofi Annan (Ghana) and the United Nations

1988: UN Peacekeeping Forces

1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

1969: International Labour Organization

1965: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

1961: Dag Hammarskjoeld (Sweden), UN secretary general

1954: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

1950: Ralph Bunche (US), UN mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict

1949: Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin (Britain), director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization