EAT Foundation, Food System Economics Commission, and EAT-Lancet 2.0

EAT is revising its landmark Planetary Health Diet to account for local food diversity, production methods, and social justice. The original EAT-Lancet Commission defined a healthy, sustainable diet for a global population, but critics noted it was too prescriptive and didn't account for regional differences or how food is grown. This revision—EAT-Lancet 2.0—fills those gaps. It will examine the range of local diets that still fall within healthy and sustainable boundaries, complement the earlier focus on consumption with work on food production practices, and add a new dimension on what "socially just" food systems look like. The commission will also run an IPCC-style comparison of different food system models to test their assumptions. If successful, the revised framework could reshape how governments, food companies, and international agencies set agricultural policy, design subsidy programmes, and define healthy eating guidelines. It may also influence supply chains by rewarding production methods that are both sustainable and equitable. The work is primarily a policy and knowledge synthesis exercise—it does not generate new lab data—but its recommendations could quietly steer the infrastructure of global food systems for the next decade.