More than 75 countries will “commit to take action to end the use of food as a weapon of war and the starvation of civilians as a tactic of warfare”, senior US officials said.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will release the communique later on Thursday when he chairs a UN Security Council meeting on famine and food insecurity.

Blinken will also announce about $362m in new US funding to “tackle the drivers of food insecurity and enhance resilience” in nearly a dozen African countries and Haiti, a second US official said.

“We’re not seeking to turn this into a showdown in Russia or any other country,” the second senior official said.

The United States, the EU and others have previously accused Russia of using food as a weapon by worsening a global food crisis when it invaded Ukraine and, more recently, leaving the Black Sea grain deal.