United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021: Food Systems Summit Dialogues

As a part of the Decade of Action for the SDGs, the United Nations Secretary-General is convening a Food Systems Summit in September 2021 aimed at empowering people to leverage food systems as accelerators of progress to realize the vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 

The Summit is supported by a high-level Advisory Committee that provides strategic guidance; a Scientific Group that will ensure the robustness of the Summit’s science; a UN Task Force that will facilitate cooperation across the UN system; and a Champions Network that will mobilize a large and diverse group of stakeholders in every region of the world to call for a transformation of the world’s food systems. 

In addition, five Action Tracks will bring together stakeholders from a wide range of backgrounds to explore how key levers of change – such as governance, finance, data, innovation, gender, and youth engagement – can be mobilized to help to meet the Summit’s objectives. The members of the Action Tracks include farmers, scientists, and youth leaders, as well as representatives from the worlds of business, government and civil society. The first open forum on Action Track 1 is taking place on 17 November, and you can register for that event here.  We will send periodic updates to you on the summit as things unfold.  We expect that there will be additional open forums for the Action Tracks in the next few months and we will let you know the dates for those as they are confirmed.

All with an interest are invited to contribute to shaping the pathways that will lead to sustainable food systems everywhere and to indicate how they will contribute to making this vision a reality for all. We urge you to get involved. You can do this by becoming a Food Systems Hero, following the Summit preparation process on social media here: Twitter @FoodSystems, Instagram @unfoodsystems Facebook @UNFoodSystems

Another opportunity for involvement in the Summit is through the Food Systems Summit Dialogues which will take place in every country in the world.  Please subscribe to the newsletter as a central mechanism for getting updates on the dialogues, becoming involved in them at national level and conducting independent summit dialogues.  Open sessions on the dialogues are also taking place on 18^th November and 25^th November.  You can register for those sessions here (and scroll down to the bottom of the webpage). 

We look forward to your participation.