The modeling workstream will be led by Mario Herrero, a professor in the Department of Global Development and a Cornell Atkinson Scholar, who has been added to the EAT-Lancet 2.0 leadership team.
Announcing the significant influence that food has on the environment, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health presented the first set of worldwide scientific targets for healthy diets in 2019 and outlined six environmental boundaries for food production.
The Commission demonstrated that it is both possible and necessary to feed 10 billion people a healthy diet within safe planetary boundaries by 2050, and that implementing a Planetary Health Diet would help prevent severe environmental degradation and approximately 11 million premature adult deaths annually.
Herrero will collaborate closely with the three co-chairs of the Commission, Line Gordon of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Fabrice DeClerck, director of science at EAT. The announcement comes in the wake of the EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission's official launch at the Stockholm+50 U.N. summit in June 2022.
"Mario brings to the Commission a wealth of knowledge about the food chain. We are eager to take advantage of his extensive knowledge of agricultural and food system models from his work with CGIAR, CSIRO, and the AgMIP project, said DeClerk. Mario's leadership effort will help to critically update the 2019 conclusions with updated models and data by better addressing uncertainty and downscaling food system environmental restrictions to national scales, even if the Commission is still in its early stages. The work being done with the Commission under the leadership of Cornell University and our collaborators at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) fills a crucial gap in promoting evidence-based action for a future where food is healthy, sustainable, and equitable.
The main goal of the Commission is to create a scientific update of the 2019 EAT-Lancet by 2024, building on the conclusions of the original publication, which Altmetric classified as the fourth most significant work in climate science and one of the top 20 most talked science papers. Reviewing the Planetary Health Diet and determining if it is feasible to provide healthy diets from fair food systems within environmental constraints for everyone by 2050 are required for this. For the first time, EAT-Lancet 2.0 will also evaluate the impact of the Planetary Health Diet on various local food cultures and geographical areas.
The Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Herrero, responded to questions about his nomination by saying, "I feel very pleased to be part of a commission of world-leading researchers and to step into a leadership capacity for EAT-Lancet 2.0. In order to improve the models and boost the sustainability of food systems for the benefit of people and the world, I look forward to presenting more regional and national solutions.
Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Shakuntala Thilsted, global lead for nutrition and public health at WorldFish CGIAR and laureate of the 2021 World Food Prize, are co-chairs of the EAT-Lancet 2.0 project, which is scheduled for publication in 2024. The Eat-Lancet Commission is made up of 25 top experts from a variety of disciplines, including political science, agriculture, and environmental sustainability. The research group's members, who come from six participants from Europe, six from Asia, four from North America, three from Latin America, and six from Africa, represent a variety of perspectives from across the continents.
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