Action Track 1 of the Food Systems Summit offers an opportunity to bring together the crucial elements of food safety, nutrition, poverty and inequalities in the framework of food systems in the context of climate and environmental change to ensure that all people have access to a safe and nutritious diet. Achieving Action Track 1 goal is essential to the achievement of the goals of the other Action Tracks. Adopting a whole-system approach in policy, research and monitoring and evaluation is crucial to manage trade-offs and externalities from farm-level to national scales and across multiple sectors and agencies.