From Risk to Resilience: Business Insights from the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission

New WBCSD report translates science into insights and actions for business leaders

Geneva, 16 October 2025 – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today released Accelerating Food Systems Transformation: Business Insights from the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission. The report translates the latest science from the updated EAT-Lancet Commission into actionable guidance for companies across the food value chain, helping business leaders strengthen resilience, secure stability, and stay competitive in a changing market.

Grounded in the latest evidence and informed by the EAT Action Dialogue process, the report highlights how businesses in food services, retail and manufacturing can lead in shaping healthier, more sustainable, and more equitable food systems.

By 2050, the global food system must deliver three interconnected outcomes:

• Healthy diets for all – affordable, culturally appropriate, and nutritionally adequate;
• Food production within planetary boundaries – decoupling growth from environmental harm and positioning food as a driver of restoration;
• People and equity at the core – ensuring fair livelihoods, living incomes, and safe working conditions across value chains.

The Commission’s findings are clear for business: incremental change is not enough. Businesses across the food value chain are already experiencing spiraling supply volatility, rising input costs and increasing scrutiny from investors, regulators and consumers. Yet the opportunities for business can be transformative. Aligning operations, value chains, and growth strategies with health, social equity, and environmental limits will not only strengthen resilience but also secure long-term business success.

The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission provides an important science-based reference for businesses at all stages of food sector, highlighting rising risks as well as transformative opportunities for business to lead the future of food.    

WBCSD works with forward-looking companies and important partners like EAT across the food value chain, providing the tools, insights, and platforms needed to translate science into actionable business strategies to strengthen performance and resilience.

– Diane Holdorf, Executive Vice President, WBCSD 

The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission sets the scientific boundaries and social foundations for transformation. WBCSD’s new report translates the science for the business community to act decisively, shaping product portfolios, supply chains, capital allocation, workforce policies, and food environments.