EAT-Lancet 2.0

One planet, many diets

In 2019, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health published the first set of global scientific targets for healthy diets and set out six environmental boundaries for food production, flagging the substantial impact that food has on them.

The Commission showed that feeding 10 billion people a healthy diet within safe planetary boundaries by 2050 is both possible and necessary and that adopting a Planetary Health Diet would help avoid severe environmental degradation and prevent approximately 11 million premature adult deaths annually.

Project Overview

Building on the findings of the first publication, the primary objective of the Commission is to produce a scientific update of the 2019 EAT-Lancet by 2024. This entails reviewing the Planetary Health Diet and testing the feasibility of ensuring healthy diets from equitable food systems within environmental limits for all by 2050. EAT-Lancet 2.0 will also for the first time assess what the Planetary Health Diet means for local food cultures and regions around the world.

Led by Mario Herrero and partnering with other key institutions, the FSGC team will work to critically update the 2019 findings with newer models and data by better handling uncertainty and downscaling food system environmental limits to national scales.

Read 2019 EAT-Lancet report

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Herrero to bolster global dietary report with food system modeling

Mario Herrero, a professor in the Department of Global Development and a Cornell Atkinson Scholar, has been appointed to the EAT-Lancet 2.0 leadership team to spearhead the modeling workstream.