EAT is a non-profit founded by the Stordalen Foundation, Stockholm Resilience Centre, and the Wellcome Trust, dedicated to transforming our global food system through sound science, impatient disruption, and novel partnerships. EAT is governed and managed by a board of trustees, while the advisory board provides management with strategic advice. EAT partners with a range of foundations, academic institutions, organizations, and companies with whom we collaborate on programs and who provide strategic advice, knowledge, and financial support to EAT.
EAT-Lancet Report: Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems (2025)
The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission Report on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, presents the most comprehensive global scientific evaluation of food systems to date. Key findings:
- Shifting global diets could prevent up to 15 million premature deaths per year.
- Food systems are the largest contributor to the transgression of five planetary boundaries.
- Food systems currently account for roughly 30% of total greenhouse gas emissions globally. Transforming food systems could cut these emissions by more than half.
- Fewer than 1% of the world’s population is currently in the ‘safe and just space’, where people’s rights and food needs are met within planetary boundaries.
- The wealthiest 30% of people drive more than 70% of food-related environmental impacts.
Building on its influential 2019 report, the new Commission – comprising leading international experts in nutrition, climate, economics, health, social sciences, and agriculture from more than 35 countries across six continents – finds that shifting global diets could prevent approximately 15 million premature deaths per year. At the same time, concerted global efforts to transform food systems could bring us back within planetary boundaries and cut annual greenhouse gas emissions from food systems by more than half compared with a business-as-usual scenario.
The Commission’s findings stress that just food systems will be essential to achieving improved health and social development outcomes. Fewer than 1% of the world’s population is currently in the ‘safe and just space’, where people’s rights and food needs are met within planetary boundaries. According to the report, currently almost a third (32%) of food systems workers earn below a living wage. Meanwhile, the wealthiest 30% of people drive more than 70% of food-related environmental impacts, and despite global calorie sufficiency, more than 1 billion people remain undernourished.
In this moment of increasing instability,
food systems still offer an unprecedented opportunity
to build the resilience of environmental, health, economic, and social systems,
and are uniquely placed to enhance human wellbeing
while also contributing to Earth-system stability.
The analysis warns that even with a complete global transition away from fossil fuels, food systems could still push temperatures beyond 1.5°C. The planetary boundaries framework defines nine key Earth system processes that regulate life on Earth. The world has already passed six of these nine boundaries: climate, biodiversity, land, freshwater, nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, and novel entities (pesticides, antimicrobials, and microplastics). Food systems are the largest contributor to five of these transgressions and contribute around 30% of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
Other EAT Initiatives
To translate knowledge into scalable action, EAT programs, partnerships, and communities of action focus on indigenous peoples, youth, children, countries, cities, chefs, farmers/fishers, health professionals, businesses, policymakers, trade, and finance aiming to bring about change.
Below are highlights of a few initiatives that are useful for Dietitians-Nutritionists, but there are many. Do visit their website!
EAT Brief for Healthcare Professionals (2024)
This is a 2-page flyer with key points from the report, useful for busy professionals. Download under the image.
Note: A slight tweak in the brief would have been ideal, as ‘a food’ can be sustainable or not sustainable – it depends on the system the food comes from and how much we use. At the end of the brief there is a great point about “Focusing on sustainably grown [and processed] food to provide healthy foods and beverages from sustainable food systems to a high standard.” This could have been moved to page 1 and slightly edited to include processing to set the tone of ‘sustainable systems’ throughout the brief, along with a few other edits to match.
EAT-GlobeScan Grains of Truth report (2024)
The report offers a comprehensive look at the evolving global food landscape through the eyes of consumers. Highlighting a growing interest in plant-based diets, the report explores how economic factors, taste preferences, and regional differences are shaping—and sometimes slowing—the shift toward more sustainable eating habits. Based on a robust online survey of over 30,000 adults across 31 countries conducted in mid-2024, the findings reveal both the optimism driving change and the challenges that remain on the path to a global dietary transformation. Download the report here.
EAT Communities for Action (2025)
From Knowledge to Action: Driving the Food System Change We Need. In the lead up to the October release of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission report, EAT, working in collaboration with global partners, is running a series of structured dialogues to accelerate progress towards healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. At the center of this initiative are nine Communities for Action, each representing a distinct stakeholder group within the global food system. These communities are composed of frontline actors working to improve how food is produced, distributed, and consumed. Click through to join.
Updated February 2026
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