U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Joint Statement on Food Security
The African Union and the United States reaffirm their shared commitment to realizing African food security by establishing a strategic partnership to guide and accelerate their work. This strategic framework will reference and build on existing bilateral, regional, multilateral, non-governmental, and philanthropic efforts to advance food security and will leverage the public and private sectors to address immediate and acute food and fertilizer needs in the short-term– including by addressing food supplies that have been disrupted – and promote transformational investments in medium-to long- term sustainable and resilient food systems. We seek to make concrete progress on the short-term goals and to develop a plan of action for the longer-term goals by the African Union’s Summit in February 2023. An Urgent Imperative ...