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  • Publication | 2021
Food Systems Summit Overview
Global Food and Nutrition Security

The first-ever UN Food Systems Summit was convened by the UN Secretary-General on 23-24 September, 2021 in conjunction with the High-level Week of the UN General Assembly. The Summit served as a capstone moment for an 18-month process designed to empower all people to leverage the power of food systems to drive our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and get us back on track to achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. It offered a catalytic moment for public mobilization and actionable commitments by Heads of State and Government and other constituency leaders to take this agenda forward throughout the Decade of Action. The Summit took a fully virtual format in light of the ongoing circumstances as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.