A study looking at whether the future world population can be fed within planetary boundaries has found that it may indeed not be possible given how food is currently grown, processed, transported, consumed and wasted.
The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health conducted the study.
EAT is a global, nonprofit start-up with the stated mission of transforming the global food system.
The Lancet is a weekly medical journal owned by Elsevier. The EAT-Lancet Commission is one of several reports on nutrition being published by The Lancet in 2019. The next commission – The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition & Climate Change – will publish later in January.
Funding for the EAT-Lancet Commission study came from the Wellcome Trust and EAT. The Stockholm Resilience Centre was the scientific coordinator of the report.
Among the conclusions reached by the commission were that: