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The European Commission and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have strengthened their partnership to boost the resilience of millions of people struggling with severe and often prolonged or recurrent food crises around the world. The agreement for €70 million contribution, signed by International Co-operation and Development Commissioner Neven Mimica (pictured) and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, contributes to the Global Network against Food Crises to promote sustainable solutions to food crises. Commissioner Mimica said: “The Global Network against Food Crises allowed us to take concrete and we need to scale this up. This additional contribution of €70 million to the FAO will further bolster our partnership and speed up the network's efforts to tackle hunger globally."In a separate event on Tuesday, the EU and the UN reconfirmed their mutual and firm commitment to reinforce the EU-UN strategic partnership on peace operations and crisis management for 2019-2021, in the margins of the UN Secretary-General's High-level event on Action for Peacekeeping. Read the full press release here and more information on the FAO and the EU is available online.

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