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The FAO Liaison Office for North America works with strategic partners in the United States and Canada to achieve the goal of defeating hunger and malnutrition worldwide. Based in Washington DC, our office provides a neutral platform for knowledge sharing to facilitate the transformation of agrifood systems in order to achieve global food security, leaving no one behind.

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Launch of a new Global Partnership for the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils initiative

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The VACS initiative, aimed at building resilient agrifood systems grounded in diverse, nutritious, and climate-adapted crops grown in healthy soils, marked another milestone through a new partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CIMMYT, a CGIAR Research Center.

FAO Food Price Index stable in June

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The benchmark for world food commodity prices was unchanged in June, as increases in international quotations for vegetable oils, sugar and dairy products offset a decrease in those for cereals, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported in early July.

Sudan is facing an unprecedented hunger catastrophe, say UN agency chiefs

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Alarming new food security projections for Sudan published in the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report show that Sudan is facing a devastating hunger catastrophe on a scale not seen since the Darfur crisis in the early 2000s.

FAO response to global food security challenges

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Find information on FAO's responses to current crises and their impact on global food security, including data analyses, policy recommendations, and actions on the ground. With in depth information from Gaza, Ukraine and ongoing crises around the world.

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