Taking action at the agri-food systems level is an extremely promising way to accelerate progress towards a wide range of objectives, from increasing agricultural productivity and improving nutrition and health to strengthening environmental sustainability, promoting inclusive economic growth and livelihoods, and reducing gender and other forms of inequality. Making progress in all these areas is essential to achieving food security. Recognizing this imperative, the United Nations has identified food systems as one of the six transitions needed to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN Sustainable Development Group, 2023).