Global food systems have reached a crossroads: their role in nourishing billions is matched only by mounting pressure on human well-being, ecosystem integrity, and planetary stability. The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission, drawing on a global roster of experts from 17 countries, delivers not just an update, but a transformation in thinking. This new edition redefines healthy and sustainable diets—bringing justice, equity, and human rights to the heart of the conversation.​

What’s New in 2025?

• Justice and Equity at the Core
  No longer is optimal nutrition and low-impact eating enough—the 2025 report embeds food justice, fair wages, decent work, and equitable resource distribution as essential drivers. It recognizes that only a tiny fraction of humanity inhabits a “safe and just space,” with both food needs and rights met within planetary boundaries.​
• Scientific Updates and Modelling
  Building on plant-rich recommendations, the Planetary Health Diet now adapts to a broader range of cultural and local contexts. Advanced modelling estimates up to 15 million premature deaths prevented annually, halved food sector climate emissions, and explicit connections to five out of the nine planetary boundaries, finding food is the primary driver of those already breached.​
• Focus on Access and Distribution
  The Commission highlights glaring inequality: the richest 30% produce over 70% of global food system impacts. Solutions must now address not just dietary shifts, but value chain and access reforms at every level.​
• A Blueprint for Policy and Action
  Eight solution areas are identified, spanning access, production, wages, child and forced labor, research transparency, and systematic reduction of food loss and waste.​

2025 EAT-Lancet Commission: All Key Topics at a Glance

• Planetary Health Diet update: Expanded plant-rich, adaptable model aimed at maximizing health and minimizing ecosystem impact.​
• Planetary boundaries mapping: Analysis of food system impact on all nine scientific boundaries, showing transgression driven by land, water, emissions, and biodiversity loss.​
• Justice, equity, and rights: Central inclusion of fair wages, decent work, environmental justice, and broad access to healthy food as requirements for transformation.​
• Cultural adaptation: Recognition of regional diversity and encouragement of local food traditions as a path to compliance with global targets.​​
• Chronic disease and mortality: Predicted reduction in premature deaths, chronic illnesses, and non-communicable disease burden through adoption at scale.​
• Systemic value chain reform: Addressing unequal distribution of labor, value, and risk along food systems, targeting corporate responsibility and policy integration.​
• Environmental urgency: Call for immediate reduction of meat-intensive diets, food waste, and ecosystem conversion to align agricultural practice with planetary limits.​
• Action blueprint: Identification of 8 thematic solution areas—healthy diets, sustainable production within boundaries, living wages, child labor bans, protection against pollution, inclusive safety nets, transparent research funding, and loss/waste reduction.​

The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission report marks a decisive shift: a planetary health diet is now inseparable from broader struggles for equity and resilience. This vision calls for coordinated action across science, business, and society—a new contract for food systems, designed not only to nourish people and planet, but also to deliver social justice at every level

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