A planet-first diet can feed the world by 2050 while improving the environment, new scientific analysis finds – CTV
October 05, 2025
Nearly everyone on the planet could have access to nutritious, culturally appropriate food by 2050 — all while improving the environment — if nations work together to implement a “planetary health diet,” a new report has found.
By adopting a healthy, planet-friendly diet — along with reducing food loss and waste and boosting agricultural productivity — some 9.6 billion people could eat “nutritiously and equitably” by 2050, according to the report published Thursday by the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems. (EAT stands for Engage, Act, Transform.)
There are currently more than 8.2 billion people on the planet, according to the United Nations.
These changes could also help cut annual greenhouse gas emissions from global food systems by more than half, according to the EAT-Lancet commission, a group of leading experts in agriculture, climate, economics, health and nutrition from more than 35 countries across six continents.
About 30 per cent of global gashouse emissions comes from growing, processing and transporting food and converting forested land into agriculture — the other 70 per cent comes from fossil fuel consumption, the report said.
