After more than a decade of work, the EAT Foundation is closing its doors.
When EAT was founded, the connection between food, human health, and the planet was treated as a niche concern. Today it sits at the centre of global policy, scientific inquiry, and public debate. We are proud to have played a role in that shift, and grateful to the scientists, partners, and colleagues who made it possible.
Over the past decade, EAT helped build the scientific and economic foundation for food systems transformation. The two EAT-Lancet Commissions, published in 2019 and again in 2025, convened more than a hundred scientists across two generations of work and produced what remain the most-cited scientific evaluations of food systems ever published. The Blue Food Assessment expanded the conversation to the oceans. The Food System Economics Commission put a number on what the current system actually costs the world: more than fifteen trillion dollars a year. The Communities for Action convened practitioners and organizations across sectors to turn EAT-Lancet recommendations into concrete commitments.
But science only matters if people engage with it. EAT’s communications work took findings that would otherwise have lived inside academic journals and put them in front of audiences approaching half a billion people. We believed from the start that science communication was a discipline in its own right, and we built a public audience for food systems that we hope continues to grow.
None of this was the work of one organization. It was the work of a community, and the people who made up that community, staff, scientists, partners, advocates, funders, and collaborators across the globe. We are profoundly grateful for everything they gave us.
What that community built does not close with us. The Planetary Health Diet is now a reference framework for the WHO, the IPCC, and governments on five continents. EAT-Lancet findings are embedded in the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy. Sixteen cities representing 130 million people have adopted procurement and dietary standards drawn from this science. The evidence base will continue to inform the decisions that shape what the world eats, and how.
We are releasing a final suite of open-access resources, including summary findings, an impact report, action briefs for policymakers and industry, public engagement tools, and an animated explainer, so that the work remains useful long after the office lights go out.
To every staff member, scientist, collaborator, funder, policymaker, and advocate who made this possible: thank you.
The science doesn’t close when the foundation does.
With gratitude, The EAT Team
Please note that this site is no longer being updated. The content reflects the state of EAT’s work at the time of our closure in May 2026. The site will remain available until May 2027 as an archive of our publications, commissions, and impact over the past decade.
EAT Impact: A Decade of Turning Science into Global Action
EAT has achieved three interconnected goals: helping establish food systems as a global priority, generating science that informs policy-making, practices and public narratives, and building coalitions that turn science into action across the globe.
