•City and regional food systems are essential to creating equitable, livable, and healthy communities. Recognizing the potential of city and regional food systems, local governments around the world are beginning to develop, enact, and implement policies to strengthen food systems.

•Yet few sub-national governments across the globe have access to information and knowledge to help them develop and enact food-related plans and policies.

•Without a single, searchable resource of existing policies, sub-national governments struggle to design effective policies to strengthen food systems that are appropriate for their level of capacity and influence.