Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Cartographers at the ready. Argentina recently got much, much bigger.

A new law lays claim to the country's continental shelf,

stretching all the way to Antarctica.

That has big resource extraction implications for Argentina and for others.

And our obituaries editor looks back on the life of Swami Agnevesh,

who freed nearly 200,000 people from indentured servitude in India

and taught countless more how to free themselves.

But first... Last week, the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to the World Food Program, the branch of the United Nations that deals with hunger.

For its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict affected areas.

One of those areas is Yemen, where a brutal civil war grinds on, and where the UN says two-thirds of the population needs food aid.

The Houthis, Shia rebels who have been fighting a Saudi-led coalition, say the award was an empty

gesture.

They accused the WFP of having failed, leaving millions of Yemeni people hungry.

The UN, in turn, partly blames the Houthis for disrupting their efforts, and the fighting

that has hampered food distribution is only intensifying.

International observers say that violence in the crucial port city of Hodeida

is the worst it's been since a truce was first signed two years ago.

A widespread famine is again dangerously close.

After almost six years of war, there is no end to crises in Yemen.

You've had more than 100,000 people killed.

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