Why do we need a better food system?
Food in The Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems report (read the adapted Summary Report), published in January 2019, showed that more than 800 million people have insufficient food, while many more consume an unhealthy diet that contributes to premature death and disease. Additionally, food production is exceeding planetary boundaries—driving climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution due to over-application of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers, and causing unsustainable changes in water and land use.