Multi-scalar policy uptake of the six-dimensional food security framework

• Earlier work by the authors proposed a six-dimensional food security framework. • In this framework, agency and sustainability are included along with access, availability, utilization and stability. • The six-dimensional food security framework has been adopted in a variety of policy contexts at multiple scales. • Growing application of the six-dimensional framework in policy settings can improve efforts to address hunger. In 2022, along with colleagues, we proposed a six-dimensional food security framework in a Food Policy viewpoint article that argued for the need to expand the commonly cited four pillar approach (availability, access, utilization and stability) by adding two additional dimensions: agency and sustainability. The proposal was not just for a new conceptual framework for scholarly analysis, but also for its application in policy settings. Over three years later, we are humbled to see widespread uptake of our call to embrace agency and sustainability as dimensions of food security in multiple tyles of policy settings at different scales. This brief policy comment outlines the growing recognition and application of the six-dimensional framework for food security in policy contexts from the global to the local level. We are hopeful that the growing application of this idea will help to make improvements in the global quest to end hunger.