Recent upheavals in the global food system have exposed tens of millions more people across the world to hunger. They have also laid bare the pressing need for investment in the policy, institutional, organizational, and individual capacities needed to address the root causes of hunger and food insecurity, and thereby achieve Millennium Development Goal 1 on ending extreme poverty and hunger. Such capacities will be crucial to the success of current and prospective country-led efforts to promote food security and overall economic development.