Clapp JMoseley WGTermine PBurlingame B2025-09-152025-09-152025-11-01Clapp J, Moseley WG, Termine P, Burlingame B. (2025). Multi-scalar policy uptake of the six-dimensional food security framework. Food Policy. 137.0306-9192https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/73555In 2022, along with colleagues, we proposed a six-dimensional food security framework in a Food Policy viewpoint article that argued for the need to expand the commonly cited four pillar approach (availability, access, utilization and stability) by adding two additional dimensions: agency and sustainability. The proposal was not just for a new conceptual framework for scholarly analysis, but also for its application in policy settings. Over three years later, we are humbled to see widespread uptake of our call to embrace agency and sustainability as dimensions of food security in multiple tyles of policy settings at different scales. This brief policy comment outlines the growing recognition and application of the six-dimensional framework for food security in policy contexts from the global to the local level. We are hopeful that the growing application of this idea will help to make improvements in the global quest to end hunger.(c) 2025 The Author/sCC BY-NC-ND 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/AgencyFood policyFood securityPolicy uptakeSustainabilityJournal article10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.1029361873-5657journal-article102936S0306919225001411