EAT Communities for Action

From Knowledge to Action: Driving the Food System Change We Need

 

In the lead up to the October release of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission report, EAT, working with Convene and in collaboration with global partners, is running a series of structured dialogues to accelerate progress towards healthy, sustainable, and just food systems.

At the center of this initiative are nine Communities for Action, each representing a distinct stakeholder group within the global food system. These communities are composed of frontline actors working to improve how food is produced, distributed, and consumed.

Through a series of three facilitated dialogues, the Communities for Action are sharing practical solutions, drawing on lived experience and contextual insight, and shaping sector-specific recommendations to be presented at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2025.

Based on these dialogues, each Community for Action is developing a set of EAT Action Briefs, written in partnership with and for each community, and co-authored by the hosts and participating organizations. Grounded in the scientific framework of the EAT-Lancet Commission, each brief will reflect the community’s priorities, articulated in their own terms. The briefs will propose targeted actions that actors can adopt and scale, actions to stop, and responsibilities for others, with a focus on overcoming fragmentation across sectors and institutional barriers.

These briefs, along with the collective work of the Communities for Action, will be shared and discussed at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum following the official launch of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission.

The Nine Communities for Action 

Each group is convened with the support of organizations that bring deep expertise in the relevant field. 

  • Chefs, Restaurant and Food Service, with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub. 
  • Cities, with C40 Cities and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP). 
  • Consumers, with Consumers International (CI) and Act4Food 
  • Farmers and Fishers, with Regen10
  • Food Retailers and Manufacturers, with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)
  • Healthcare Professionals, with the Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN) International
  • Indigenous Peoples, with the World Food Program (WFP) and the Indigenous Peoples Food Systems Coalition 
  • National Policymakers, with the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT of the CGIAR
  • Trade and Financial Flows, with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the World Bank.

 

The EAT Action Dialogues are held online to ensure global participation, with selected in-person sessions organized around major international events. Cross-community exchanges are underway to strengthen systems thinking and align strategies across sectors.   

We are convinced that community mobilization is at the heart of the change we aim to catalyze, backed by the science the EAT-Lancet Commission providesFabrice DeClerck, Chief Science Officer, EAT

Join the Communities for Action

Organizations and individuals with a proven commitment to advancing healthy, sustainable and just food systems are invited to engage with the EAT Communities for Action.

To express an interest, request more information, or join a Community for Action, please contact Ismael Erriest at [email protected].

Learn more about the EAT Action Dialogues in this participant briefing pack.

 

2019 EAT-Lancet Commission Briefs:

For reference, the 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission Briefs: