The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission report redefines the path to healthy, just and sustainable food systems in an era of global uncertainty.
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Since the release of the first EAT-Lancet Commission in 2019, the global landscape has been reshaped by compounding crises, from the COVID-19 pandemic and armed conflicts to rising food prices and deepening inequality. These challenges have intensified vulnerabilities within food systems, yet they also highlight the critical role these systems play at the intersection of health, sustainability, equity, and resilience. While today’s food systems have helped meet global caloric needs, they remain the largest driver of environmental degradation and fail to deliver healthy diets to over half the world’s population. The consequences are stark: increasing hunger, rising obesity, and worsening ecological breakdown, all calling for urgent, systemic transformation.
This updated Commission builds upon the original framework by expanding its focus beyond nutrition and environmental sustainability to include the social foundations of a just food system. It introduces new analyses of equity, examining who holds power, who benefits, and who is left behind, while leveraging improved data and multimodel projections to assess the impacts of systemic change. By integrating justice and resilience into its core, this report offers a more holistic roadmap to guide global action, demonstrating that transforming food systems is not only essential for human and planetary health but also a powerful lever for a more equitable and stable future.
