Today, approximately 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68 percent by 2050. Most urban growth will be in Africa and Southeast Asia and with 70 percent all food produced already destined for consumption in cities2 processes of urbanization are creating both challenges and opportunities to create healthy, fair, economically and environmentally sustainable food systems. The purpose of the Monitoring Framework is to serve as an instrument for cities and urban food stakeholders to identify food-related policy and program priorities. The Framework also serves to illustrate to what extent “desired changes” are happening and/ or how impactful such changes are. If measured periodically, the Framework can be used to evaluate gaps in policy advancement and resource mobilization as well as reveal overall urban food systems improvement.