Participants at the first Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue agreed on a communique that commits financial and technical support “commensurate to the size of the food security challenge” in Africa. The communique formalizes the commitments of the World Bank, FAO, AfDB, and IFAD to a new way of working jointly to address food and nutrition security and achieve impacts that are much larger than what the individual organizations could offer working separately. While the multilateral development partners and the AU are the core signatories to the communique, the document is open for signing by other regional and international organizations.

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