Summary
This paper reports outcomes from the September 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit, where representatives from 183 countries identified climate change, COVID-19, and conflict as three converging disruptions threatening global food systems and recent progress on hunger and malnutrition. The summit concluded that business-as-usual approaches are inadequate to achieve sustainable development goals and called for urgent, scaled action to protect food security and nutrition. The work represents a high-level consensus position on the systemic drivers of food insecurity in the early 2020s.
UK applicability
As a signatory to the UNFSS, the United Kingdom is bound by the summit's conclusions and calls for action. The three disruptions identified—particularly climate change and supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19—are directly relevant to UK food security policy and the resilience of domestic and imported food systems.
Key measures
Country participation (183 nations), identification of three priority disruptions ('three Cs'), consensus on need for urgent scaled action
Outcomes reported
The paper documents conclusions from the UN Food Systems Summit where 183 countries identified three critical disruptions (climate change, COVID-19, and conflict) threatening food security and nutrition. Summit delegates agreed that conventional approaches are insufficient and called for urgent, scaled action.
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