Speakers called for positioning regenerative school meals as part of national climate policies and broader efforts to advance local economic development. The call to action comes at a critical time, as school meal programs are expanding globally. To date, 107 countries have national school meal policies, nearly twice the number in 2020. Speakers underscored the imperative to design school meal programs that will safeguard the ecological futures of the food systems on which they rely. “We are here today because we all believe in the transformative power that school meals have for people and their communities.