IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan is proud to serve as a Commissioner for the EAT-Lancet report, Food in the Anthropocene: The EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems. This report brought together food, nutrition, and environmental scientists along with policy experts to produce the first global, evidence-based dietary guidelines to help ensure human and planetary health.
Fan notes that food systems play a key role in nurturing human health and supporting environmental sustainability, yet currently, they are threatening both. Global efforts are urgently needed to collectively transform diets and food production to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement–food system can only be transformed through widespread, multisector action. IFPRI and CGIAR researchers and partners will play a critical role in contributing rigorous evidence and knowledge base for the widespread, multisectoral action that is required for a food system transformation.