Sub-Saharan Africa’s food systems experience several adverse environmental, economic, and political factors. This has high human and financial costs due to lower labour productivity and higher healthcare and education costs attributable to child wasting and stunting. Regional and sub-regional collective efforts have been rolled out to address this condition, mainly focusing on increasing the production, supply, affordability, and consumption of healthy foods. This chapter aims to advance Sub-Saharan African food systems literature by assembling often disparate information about food systems and providing a holistic and accessible evaluation that can be used to inform or contextualise further food system work. This exploratory chapter is underpinned by a critical analysis of documents by the African Union to provide an overview of key African Union milestones to improve food security and nutrition. These milestones include the establishment of the African Task Force on Food and Nutrition Development, the Maputo Declaration, the African Regional Nutrition Strategy, the Malabo Declaration, the Renewal of African Regional Nutrition Strategy, the African Leaders for Nutrition initiative, Africa Common Position Paper on Food Systems, and Declaration of 2022 as the Year of Nutrition for Africa. The chapter concludes that however ambitious, commitments and strategies need to be integrated into policy to facilitate sustainable implementation.