The UNFSS Pre-Summit took place in Rome, 26-28 July 2021 to build coalitions around the many food systems solutions that have been proposed. CFS, the UN’s global platform for policy action on SDG 2, organized a session on the place and role of multilateral policy convergence for food systems transformation with a focus on the Committee’s recently-endorsed Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition (VGFSN). The VGFSN are an important contribution to the UN Food Systems Summit as they are a global policy instrument negotiated at a multilateral level among governments and other stakeholders on the connections between food systems and nutrition. The CFS session highlighted the voices of many key CFS constituencies and called for greater use of CFS’s platform, its flagship policy products, and its science-policy interface modelled in 2009 on the UNFCCC’s IPCC – the CFS High Level Panel of Experts.
The recording and information about the VGFSN are available on line from this webpage : here
