The Fair Food Challenge is empowering university communities to build a fair, healthy and accessible food system. We believe universities must exercise leadership in our society. We are working with institutions to develop and implement comprehensive fair food plans to transform campus food environments. We recognise that campuses must provide healthy food environments, access to affordable food and access to skills and opportunities to grow, buy, cook and eat and share good food. We acknowledge that food is a systemic issue and that food impacts sustainability, social equity, health, education and our physical environments. Investing in local, sustainable, humane and fair food systems benefits the whole of society and that by demonstrating these values in our institutions we benefit the lives of current staff and students as well as encourage the recruitment of future staff and students. Making these connections fosters university-community relations and supports the livelihoods of family farmers and food chain workers. The Fair Food Challenge is asking Australian universities to adopt fair food principles to transform their campus food environments.