Stockholm Food Forum

Launched at the Stockholm Food Forum, the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission offers a comprehensive scientific update on how to create food systems that are healthy, sustainable, and equitable and can feed 10 billion people by 2050. Building on findings from the 2019 inaugural report, this updated report integrates the latest research on nutrition, climate, biodiversity, and social justice. It revises the Planetary Health Diet to reflect more culturally adaptable, plant-forward eating patterns and explores how food systems affect key environmental boundaries, including greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and water resources. With input from over 70 global experts, the report introduces new global models to demonstrate how to feed a growing population within ecological limits, while placing justice—such as fair wages and access to nutritious food—at the heart of the transformation. It also outlines eight key solution areas to guide meaningful change toward a more sustainable and just future.

One of the major updates is a greater recognition and inclusion of aquatic foods towards a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system. These updates include:

• Seafood is now recognized as a core part of a sustainable, nutritious diet, with the EAT-Lancet report recommending regular consumption of 30–100 grams per day, depending on availability and context.
  
• When responsibly managed, fish and other aquatic foods offer vital nutrients with relatively low environmental impact, making them one of the more climate- and health-friendly animal protein sources.
  
• To fully realize the benefits of seafood without degrading ocean ecosystems, the report emphasizes the need for improved governance, including rebuilding fish stocks, regulating and ensuring sustainable aquaculture practices, ending harmful subsidies, and boosting investment in ocean science and management.

The Aquatic Blue Food Coalition at Stockholm Food Forum 

ABFC had the opportunity to contribute to two associated EAT-Lancet products launched at the Stockholm Food Forum that highlighted the role of aquatic foods in food systems.

Farmers and Fishers Community for Action’s Action Brief

The Action Briefs outline strategic priorities tailored to each community, offering practical steps that stakeholders can implement, adapt, and expand to help build food systems that are healthy, equitable, and sustainable. Each brief is informed by the scientific insights of the EAT-Lancet Commissions, but were specifically co-developed by community representatives, frontline implementers, and practitioners to ground the report findings in stakeholder realities. 

These briefs capture those collective perspectives and are intended as catalysts for conversation and cooperation—at the Stockholm Food Forum and in broader efforts to transform food systems worldwide.

Gender Equity in Fisheries Increases Sustainability and Resilience, a story from the blue swimming crab in Lampung Indonesia

Le Stories of Progress showcase the real-world efforts of Communities for Action to promote diets that are healthy, sustainable, and equitable. Each story offers a brief look into a specific action, initiative, or project led by a Community for Action member. These stories spotlight the key contributors, practical insights gained, how evidence—particularly from the EAT-Lancet Commissions inspired solutions—has been translated into action, and the envisioned next steps for deepening impact.

The Story of Progress on how women are reshaping the blue swimming crab fishery in Lampung, Indonesia was highlighted in the Action Brief for the Farmers and Fishers Community for Action as an action related to strengthening financial skills and agency, and as a EAT-Lancet inspired solution under the portfolio of ensuring meaningful voice and representation.