Opportunities and challenges in feeding 9 billion people a healthy and sustainable diet

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SUSTAINABILIT

FOO HEALT

BUSINESS

SCIENCE POLITICS

HOW TO FEED 9 BILLION PEOPLE A

HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE DIETWITHIN PLANETARY

BOUNDARIES

THE PROBLEM

Planetary Boundaries A safe operating space for humanity

Steffen et al Science 16 January 2015

Unprecedented scale and pace of global change

Paris

BAU2080-2100

2280-2300

Will Steffen et al., submitted AWG 2016

Tipping out of the Holocene…

So what does food have to do with this?

25% GHG EMISSIONS COMES

FROM AGRICULTURE

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Tilman & Clark 2014

40% GLOBAL LAND SURFACE USED FOR FOOD

80% GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY

FOUND IN FORESTS

90% FISH STOCKS MAY BE

OVERFISHED

Marine fish capture and trajectory

70% GHG EMISSIONS FROM AGRICULTURE BY 2050

60% GLOBAL DEATHS FROM NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

(NCDS)

1/3 FOOD IS WASTED

ANIMAL FATS

BEFF PORK

PALM OIL

REFINE GRAINS & SUGAR

MAIZE

WHEATRICE

POULTRY

EGGS & DAIRY

FRUITS, LEGUMES & VEGETAB-

LES

OLIVE OIL

NUTS & SEEDS

AQUA- CULTURE

&CAPTURE

SOYBE-AN

MORE SUSTAINABLE

MORE HEALTHY

LESS SUSTAINABLE

LESS HEALTHY

WHOLE GRAINS

HEALTHY FOOD CAN ALSO BE SUSTAINABLE

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100% of Global needRed Meat

+468%

Nuts and Seeds (-68%)Fish

+48%

Fruit (-44%)

Whole Grains +54%

Vegetables (-11%)

Milk (-49%)

Adapted from Murray 2014

Health, climate change and diets Springmann, M., Charles, H., Godfray, J., Rayner, M., & Scarborough, P. (2016). Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change co-

benefits of dietary change. PNAS , 113 (15).

Reduced meat consumption could reduce global mortality by 6–10% and food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 29–70% by 2050

THE SOLUTION

Food connects all the SDGs together

This is the biggest opportunity for humanity – It is also the biggest puzzle… How do we achieve it?

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Metrics for healthy and sustainable diets

Multifunctional landscapes and seascape

Consumer behavior

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EAT Stockholm Food Forum

General Assembly of the United Nations

EATx : Arendalsuka, Abu Dhabi

URBAN

BUSINESS

KNOWLEDGE

CONSUMER ADVOCACY

FOUNDATIO

RESEARCH

EVENTS

PROGRAMS

C40Nordic cities initiative

Action 2020 Food - WBCSD

Lancet commissionDatabase and reportChatham house commission

Eat, Move, SleepChefs NetworkMatagentene

Thank you www.eatforum.org

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Michael Pollan

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