The Food and Nutrition Security Working Group (FNSWG) promotes quarterly thematic meetings to engage members and stakeholders and foster discussions to gather substantive contributions and recommendations towards promoting and advocating for food and nutrition security in southern Africa. The first quarterly thematic session of 2021 is entitled Food Systems in Southern Africa. This is in recognition of food systems' centrality as a tool for collectively addressing food and nutrition security challenges in the southern Africa region. The FNSWG recognises the threat of Climate Change in Southern to food and nutrition security in southern Africa. With its 2-pronged approach to 1) Strengthen diagnostics and analytics and 2) To track response strategy towards climate-induced episodes consisting of turning early warning to early action, managing risk to protect people and assets and climate-proofing development, the Group seeks to strengthen the food systems dimension of its work in southern Africa region.