EAT-Lancet 2025 in Action: Bridging Science and…

How can we use the science to accelerate the impact of the practices of Dutch agro-food and nutrition stakeholders?

Global geopolitical instability and rising food prices are intensifying vulnerabilities in food systems worldwide, creating urgent challenges for food security, health, and equity. While current food systems have largely succeeded in providing sufficient calories for a growing global population, they are also the leading driver of planetary boundary transgressions and fail to deliver healthy diets for more than half of the world’s population. This has profound consequences for public health, social justice, and environmental sustainability. Dutch stakeholders working in this domain in LMICs are faced with these challenges, directly affecting their programmes and/or their business. Despite this context, there is an urgent need for transformative actions to halt these negative consequences and accelerate actions that result in access to affordable sustainable healthy diets that operate within the planetary boundaries, both in the Netherlands and in LMICs.

Join us on the 26th February 2026, in The Hague, to listen to and discuss the findings of the EAT-Lancet Commission 2025. The keynote speaker Dr. Fabrice DeClerck, Chief Science Office at EAT, who leads EAT’s research and synthesis science, will explain the EAT-Lancet Commission’s findings.

This event will create space to reflect on the presented findings. In interactive small groups, practitioners can discuss how research evidence can be put into practice through collective brainstorming on pathways and collaborations, culminating in a plenary discussion. Together, these sessions will offer opportunities to reflect, exchange ideas, and strengthen collective efforts to translate cutting-edge science into meaningful action and impact.

Programme:

Time	Topic
09:30	Walk-in & Registration
10:00	Welcome & Introduction
10:10	Keynote: Understanding the EAT-Lancet 2025 report, including Q&A By Fabrice DeClerck, PhD (EAT Forum and Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT)
10:55	Short reflections on the use of the report in agrifood system practice from: SNV, Bopinc, World Benchmarking Alliance, Schouten Family Companies
11:15	Group Discussion: How can we apply the EAT-Lancet 2025 recommendation in our work? Group 1: Sustainable animal source food sectors in LMICs Group 2: Agriculture sectors producing food that co-benefits Planetary Healthy Diets Group 3: Changing the mindsets towards sustainable healthy diets Group 4: Fostering the affordability of a sustainable healthy diet Group 5: Coherent policy and practice in both OECD countries and LMICs Group 6: Aligning climate financing for nutrition
11:55	Plenary interactive discussion between audience and experts
12:25	Closing remarks
12:30	Networking lunch