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  • Publication | 2023

Crop Prospects and Food Situation – November 2023

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

FAO assesses that globally 46 countries/territories, including 33 in Africa, ten in Asia, two in Latin America and the Caribbean and one in Europe, are in need of external assistance for food.

Persisting and intensifying conflicts are key drivers of the severest levels of acute food insecurity, with recent concerns centred on the Near East. Despite declining international prices, weak currencies in many low‑income countries are sustaining high domestic food prices and hampering households’ access to food.