Many city mayors have committed to developing sustainable and resilient food systems, to provide nutritious and accessible food to all, while protecting biodiversity and fighting against food waste. With these objectives, 199 cities signed the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP), which laid-out 6 workstreams and 37 recommended actions.

The purpose of the Monitoring Framework is to serve as an instrument for cities and urban food stakeholders to identify food-related policy and programme priorities. The Framework also serves to illustrate to what extent “desired changes” are happening, or how impactful such changes are. Thus, 44 indicators are defined and provide a monitoring framework for such Urban Food Policies.