What does it mean to look at food and agriculture through a systems lens? How can this approach help us to create healthier diets, more resilient food systems, and fairer outcomes for people and the planet? A systems approach is about making decisions in food and agriculture that consider connections with other parts of the system and the interrelated system. When we think about agri-food systems that have all of these different components involved in bringing food from farm to fork, the processing components, the farm components, the retailing components, it involves people and technologies.