The first-ever UN Food Systems Summit saw nearly 300 commitments from all constituencies after engaging with hundreds of thousands of people from around the world ready to act and transform our food systems!

On Thursday 23 September, civil society, farmers, youth, Indigenous Peoples, Member States and countless others like you joined this historic event. Over 51,000 people tuned in from 193 countries, all ready to tackle global hunger, climate change, and biodiversity loss for true food systems transformation.

Didn’t get a chance to watch the Summit live? All sessions and commitments from Member States and different constituencies are available to watch on-demand on the virtual platform.

Secretary-General’s Chair Summary and Statement of Action

“Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half of the world,” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres quotes Martin Luther King Jr. in his Chair Summary and Statement of Action on the UN Food Systems Summit.

Safe and nutritious food provides not only life and health, but hope. Every day, billions of people harvest, process and transport food to market and to our homes. With this it is time for inclusive and transformative food systems to nourish progress and to achieve zero hunger. The Summit provided an essential boost of energy but now all stakeholders and governments must reaffirm a commitment to act with urgency, at scale and in solidarity.

Commitment Registry will track multi-stakeholder promises of action

The Summit has engaged hundreds of thousands of people from around the world and across all constituencies to accelerate action. The 200+ commitments registered so far are actions aligned to the Summit’s Action Areas, and comes out after an 18-month inclusive and engaging process with diverse stakeholders. Read the full list of the emerging coalitions here.

These five Action Areas include Nourish All People, which led to actions like the Food is Never Waste Coalition, and the Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for Children and all Coalition. The second Action Area, Boost Nature-Based Solutions of Production, saw different multi-stakeholder commitments including the Agroecology Coalition. The Advance Equitable Livelihoods, Decent Work, and Empowered Communities brought in the Decent Work and Living Incomes and Wages Coalition. With countless other initiatives stemming from the Action Area of Build Resilience to Vulnerabilities, Shocks, and Stresses, and Means of Implementation.