Eat

The EAT Foundation builds on the work of the EAT Initiative, created by the Stordalen Foundation and Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2013. Together with the Wellcome Trust they launched the EAT Foundation in Mars 2016 with the ambition to reform the global food system, enabling us to feed a growing global population with healthy food from a healthy... planet. The three organisations will use their unique range of experience in health, science, policy and sustainability, to convene experts and decision makers who together can transform the way we eat. EAT will stimulate interdisciplinary research by fostering collaboration across the multiple scientific disciplines interfacing with food issues, in order to improve nutrition and food safety, as well as tackling global health and environmental challenges such as the epidemics of obesity and non-communicable diseases, climate change and degradation of ecosystems. The scientific content and output of EAT is steered by an Advisory Board, consisting of more than 30 of the world's leading experts in the fields of food science and policy, nutrition, public health, environmental sustainability, veterinary sciences, and economics. One of the initiative's long-term foci is to develop an integrated and holistic set of practical guidelines for consumers and the private sector on healthy and sustainable diets, accounting for impacts from field to fork. Furthermore, EAT aims to identify business opportunities and spur innovations along the food value chain that benefit both public health and the environment. Finally, EAT aims to provide policymakers with an evidence base for decision-making, as well as strategy suggestions to change consumer behaviour at the population level.Read More