The UNFSS+4 Portfolio: A shared path forward for food systems transformation
From Addis Ababa to action. The UNFSS+4 Portfolio distills plans, progress, challenges, and triumphs shaping the future of food systems transformation.
In July 2025, the global food systems community reached a new point of alignment.
In Addis Ababa, a global conversation on food systems converged around a shared sense of direction – shaped by ministers and mayors, food producers and food chain workers, Indigenous Peoples leaders and youth advocates, scientists, entrepreneurs, and partners from across the United Nations system and beyond.
Co-hosted by Ethiopia and Italy, the United Nations Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4) brought together more than 130 countries alongside partners and stakeholders from every region. It marked a reset – clarifying what is working, what is not, and what must scale now.
A turning point
UNFSS+4 took place against a backdrop of converging global challenges. Climate shocks continue to disrupt harvests. Conflict and economic volatility are driving food insecurity. Persistent inequalities leave millions without access to healthy diets.
Yet Addis Ababa also revealed a parallel reality: transformation is already underway, with a new generation of leaders accelerating change across sectors and scales.
The UNFSS+4 Portfolio brings together key insights emerging from plenary discussions, thematic sessions, and multi-stakeholder dialogues. It shows how countries are strengthening policy integration, building accountability mechanisms, and advancing pathways to more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food systems.
Introducing the Addis Portfolio: Voices, Visions, Victories
The Addis Portfolio: Voices, Visions, Victories is both a legacy document and a working tool for the next phase of delivery.
It brings together the full mosaic of the Summit, translating it into actionable signals, priorities, and pathways. Key priorities and messages emerged with clarity from UNFSS+4:
- Food systems transformation is now central to sustainable development, linked to health, jobs, climate resilience, and social justice.
- National pathways are maturing, with countries moving into implementation and investment readiness.
- Accountability is strengthening, with growing emphasis on data, monitoring, and course correction.
- Finance remains the critical frontier, requiring stronger alignment between ambition and investment.
- Transformation is human, driven by communities, producers, and local actors across contexts.
Looking ahead: From dialogue to delivery
As the global community moves forward, the Addis Portfolio helps anchor a shared understanding of priorities and direction, and links current momentum to upcoming global milestones and the road to UNFSS+6.
The next phase depends on delivering at scale – bringing leadership, finance, science, and communities into alignment. The Addis Portfolio is designed to help make that happen.
As part of its coordination role, the Hub will continue to support countries and partners in aligning efforts and accelerating implementation.
