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Nobel Laureates Alliance for Food Security and Peace

Italy
Giorgio Parisi

Giorgio Parisi is full professor of Theoretical Physics at the Sapienza University of Rome, associate researcher at the INFN National Institute of Nuclear Physics. In 2021 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Iraq
Nadia Murad

The Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign against the use of rape as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

Ireland
Mairead Maguire
Mairead Maguire es una activista por la paz de Irlanda del Norte. Recibió el Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1976 junto a Betty Williams por su campaña contra la violencia entre católicos y protestantes en el conflicto norirlandés en la década de 1970.
Argentina
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine human rights activist. He was awarded the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to fight the military junta that was ruling Argentina.
Costa Rica
Oscar Arias Sánchez
Oscar Arias Sánchez is a former president of Costa Rica. He was awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year.
South Africa
Graça Machel
Graça Machel is a former First Lady of South Africa and a human rights activist for women’s and children’s rights. She is the widow of Nelson Mandela, freedom icon and a former president of South Africa, who was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime.
East Timor
José Ramos-Horta
José Ramos-Horta is a former president of East Timor. He was awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
Bangladesh
Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, especially women, through their pioneering microcredit work.
Yemen
Tawakkol Karman
Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for the safety of women and their rights to full participation in peace-building work in Yemen, and became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising.
Liberia
Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist and women’s right advocate. She was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for the safety and rights of women in peacebuilding and is a founding member of the Women in Peacebuilding Network/West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WIPNET/WANEP).
Colombia
Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos is a former president of Colombia. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.
Why this Alliance?
The Nobel Peace Laureates Alliance for Food Security and Peace was established by the FAO Director-General in May 2016 to work jointly with FAO to build a virtuous relationship, where food security supports peacebuilding, and peacebuilding reinforces food security. The Alliance is an advocacy group of Nobel Peace Laureates that aims at amplifying FAO’s contribution to conflict prevention and to giving visibility at the work of the Organization in post-conflict countries in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Facts and Figures
conflict
conflict

Post-conflict countries with high food insecurity are 40 percent more likely to relapse into conflict within a 10-year time span.

gdp
gdp

Agriculture accounts for two-thirds of employment and one-third of gross domestic product (GDP) in countries in protracted crises.

2000

Since 2000, 48 percent of civil conflicts have been in Africa, where access to rural land underpins the livelihoods of many, and where in 27 out of 30 interstate conflicts land issues have played a significant role.

fleeing
fleeing

Every day in 2014, conflicts and violence forced about 42 500 people to flee their homes and seek safety either internally or across borders. Few refugees (only 1 percent) have returned, less than at any point in the past 30 years.

refugee
refugee

In 2014, children constituted 51 percent of the refugee population, the highest percentage in more than a decade.