What the new EAT-Lancet reveals about the future of food

Urša Manček-Rakovec
Urša Manček-RakovecMarketing and PR

The updated EAT-Lancet report calls for urgent transformation of the global food system. Here’s what we learned at the launch and how our work supports this change.

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Last week, we joined global thought leaders from science, politics, business, and civil society at the Stockholm Food Forum for the launch of the EAT-Lancet 2.0 report — the most comprehensive scientific review yet of how our diets affect both human health and the planet.

The message is clear: what’s healthy for people is healthy for the planet, and changing what’s on our plates might just be the most powerful climate action we can take.

Six years later: What’s changed?

When the first EAT-Lancet report came out in 2019, it set the foundation for the Planetary Health Diet — a mostly plant-based diet that could feed 10 billion people while staying within planetary limits.

We’re proud to have supported this landmark report through the Login5 Foundation, and now, six years later, the world looks very different. We’ve lived through a pandemic, ongoing conflicts, and growing climate instability. Food insecurity is rising, and yet, we’re producing more than ever, just not in the right way.

The 2025 report brings the evidence up to date and places justice at the center. 

Fewer than 1% of people worldwide live in a “safe and just space,” where food meets human needs without harming the planet. The wealthiest 30% of people drive more than 70% of food-related environmental impacts. Food systems are responsible for breaching five of nine planetary boundaries, and about 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Seven boundaries crossed, one system to fix

Out of nine planetary boundaries (the processes that regulate our planet’s climate and ecosystem), seven have already been crossed.

As of 2025, the boundaries that have surpassed safe limits are climate change, biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), novel entities (such as pesticides), and, newly added in 2025, ocean acidification.

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Status of food system pressures across all nine planetary boundaries (Rockström et al., 2025, Fig. 1)

Food systems are largely responsible for five of them:

  • Biogeochemical flows: disruption of the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles through synthetic fertilizer use and livestock waste.)
  • Land-system change: driven by deforestation and conversion of natural systems for agriculture.
  • Climate change: agriculture and food production generate roughly 30% of global GHG emission.
  • Biosphere integrity: loss of species and habitats due to intensive farming and monocultures.
  • Freshwater change: overextraction for irrigation and pollution from fertilizers.

At the same time, the food system itself is suffering from those very disruptions, including extreme weather conditions, soil degradation, and declining yields.

In short: if we fix our food system, we have a chance to fix the planet.

The Planetary Health Diet

At the core of the report is the Planetary Health Diet (PHD), a balanced, predominantly plant-based diet designed to nourish 10 billion people within planetary limits.

The PHD emphasizes fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and nuts, while minimizing ultra-processed foods and animal products.

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Prof. Walter C. Willet presenting the Planetary Health Diet at the Stockholm Food Forum

According to the Commission, shifting global diets toward the PHD could reduce premature deaths by 15 million each year, cut total mortality by 28%, and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and water demand.

Bringing insights into practice

For us at LoginEKO, this report confirms what we’ve been building toward — that a plant-based, traceable, and sustainable food system is not only possible, but necessary.

We’re putting these principles into action every day by building a scalable, livestock free, plant-based, sustainable farming model that others can adopt. Our legume-based crop rotations naturally produce nitrogen, eliminating dependence on synthetic fertilizers and eliminating animal inputs entirely. Every stage, from seed to harvest, is monitored through our Farming Software, ensuring efficiency, transparency, and continuous improvement.

And because change happens faster when knowledge is shared, we’re openly sharing our solutions and results. That way, others can learn from our model and apply it to their own, helping speed up the shift toward a healthier, more sustainable food system.

The EAT-Lancet report also highlights an important social challenge: even when people want to eat sustainably, convenience often wins. According to the report, food choices are driven by taste, price, and health — and only then by the planet.

That’s why we created Njamito, an organic, plant-based meal in a bottle, designed to make healthy, plant-based diets easier without compromise, with the goal of making those first three drivers work for the planet as well.

Policy, collaboration, and hope

But the commission didn’t stop at identifying the problems. It outlined tangible, scalable solutions to achieve three overarching goals:

  1. Achieve the planetary health diet for all
  2. Produce the planetary health diet within planetary boundaries
  3. Secure social foundations

Goals, solutions, and actions to achieve healthy, sustainable, and just food systems (Rockström et al., 2025, Fig. 16)

“The systems we’ve built are human-made, and so are the solutions.”

This transition starts with knowledge. This report, connecting science, health, and justice, reminds us that transforming food is about securing stability, security, and well-being for all.

We encourage everyone, from consumers to people working in food, agriculture, or health to read the full report.

The discussions in Stockholm left us both challenged and inspired. Challenged, because the scale of change needed is enormous. Inspired, because the solutions are within reach, and we’re already on the right path by putting many of them into practice.

This connection between food, health, and the planet is at the heart of everything we do. We’ll keep sharing what we learn and testing what works, from soil to software to food innovation, so that healthy, sustainable, and transparent food systems can become the standard.

Sources:

  • Rockström, J., Willett, W., Vermeulen, S., Fanzo, J., Phillips, M., Dasgupta, P., … Haines, A. (2025). Healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems: The EAT-Lancet Commission 2.0. The Lancet, 406(10442), 1700–1774. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01201-2

Image sources:

  • Rockström, J., et al. (2025). Figure 1. Status of food system pressures across all nine planetary boundaries (indicated by the black dotted pattern) and the food system boundaries (red line). In The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems [Journal Article]. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01201-2
  • Rockström, J., et al. (2025). Figure 16. Goals, solutions, and actions to achieve healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. In The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems [Journal Article]. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01201-2

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