Supplementary data to 'EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems'

Summary

This supplementary dataset accompanies the EAT-Lancet Commission's landmark dietary recommendations, providing detailed analysis of the environmental and food system implications of shifting global diets towards health and sustainability. The data quantifies consumption and production patterns across food groups and geographies under the proposed dietary scenarios, alongside associated environmental impact metrics. These materials support evidence-based policy discussions on achieving nutritionally adequate diets within planetary boundaries.

UK applicability

The UK, as a high-income nation with significant food imports and emissions from livestock production, would benefit from using these global scenarios to model domestic dietary and agricultural transitions. The data could inform UK food policy and climate commitments, though country-specific production and consumption patterns may require further localisation.

Key measures

Global environmental impacts (likely including greenhouse gas emissions, land use, water use); consumption data by food group, country and region; production data by food group, country and region

Outcomes reported

The study analysed global environmental impacts and consumption and production data across different food groups, countries and regions under the EAT-Lancet dietary scenarios. The supplementary data quantifies how shifting to the recommended healthy diet would affect environmental footprints and food system production patterns worldwide.

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