The 2025 EAT Lancet Report
- Daphne Du Cros
- Oct 8
- 2 min read
The new EAT Lancet Report has been released and presents new research on eating within planetary boundaries.
The Executive Summary of the report states:
"The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems presents new evidence-based insights on nutrition and human health, within safe and just planetary boundaries. New to this Commission are updates to the planetary health diet, measurement and assessment of the impact food systems have in driving transgressions of planetary boundaries, an exploration of multi-dimensional and underlying issues of food justice, new research and extensive modelling insights, and transformative and action-based recommendations and roadmaps.
The Commission lays the foundations for food systems to take a central role in the post-SDG era, presenting global, regional, local, and individual means to achieve that while creating and retaining a just social foundation, that protects human health and minimises harms to planetary health."
What does this mean to us as Food Partnerships and Food Citizens?
As a food partnership, we look to evidence like this, review their findings and identify ways to weave them into our local level programmes and projects. We, along with our Partners, have local place-based knowledge and links with our communities and organisations. We work from a food systems lens to identify where food can be used as a lever for meaningful change that prioritises people, place and planet.
Ultimately, we are working towards a food system transformation that regenerates our land, communities, food culture and economies, and builds resilience to food shocks through relocalisation. This means that we are building a movement that will bring everyone along with us on this journey, regardless of their starting point.
The EAT Lancet Report pulls together new evidence to show that there is a shift in diet that we need to work towards that will not only make us healthier, but consuming within planetary boundaries. This works alongside farming and growing food for people in ways that are landscape-appropriate and compatible. The beautiful thing about the report is that it's not 'anti'- anything but recognises that we've drifted far off 'health' across any and all metrics. It offers a roadmap to get back on course.
Interesting report and with my keen eye on the funding side ever the critic for such articles which would lead in the long run profit for plant based companies. The report leans to less meat and dairy, not looking at the conditions of those animals including blame it not mentioning good practice that could allow increased nutrition for all the planet, they just lump them together.
My cynical side looks at this as a way to allow, as one of the contributors and a director on the panel too quote (I did start researching the article contributors) Emission-intensive products such as meat and dairy would be most affected by such a climate fee which would lead to a fee payed…