2019 CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Platform Convention

The recently released EAT-Lancet report made waves through food security research, identifying a diet that would sustain humans and the planet – and arguing that while the challenge is daunting, that shifting to healthy diets has significant positive impacts on environmental sustainability. The work is an achievement, and yet, it raises inevitable questions such as: how precise are these boundaries and what is the cost of transgressing them? Are there fundamental trade-offs between food and environmental security? Can’t technology reduce the environmental impacts of meat? Are livestock and climate fundamentally at odds? Does the universal nature of the healthy diets, and sustainable food production overly restrict intervention options and obliterate individual choice? The first half of the session will both give a detailed look at the EAT-Lancet Commission and will dive into these fundamental questions.