EAT Communities for Action 2025

In the lead up to the launch of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission EAT, working with Convene and in collaboration with global partners, mobilised ten Communities for Action (CfAs). Each Community represents a distinct key food system actor group and brings together frontline actors from around the world. Over a period of 6-10 months each of these communities co-developed Action Briefs, shared their Stories of Progress and started to explore cross-community tension, synergies and potential high impact collaborative actions. The Action Briefs were launched alongside the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission at the 2025 Stockholm Food Forum with the CfA voice vital to this solutions-based Forum.

And this is just the beginning! Since SFF, CfAs have continued to gather, amplify and deepen their collaboration, their explicit integration of EAT-Lancet science and amplify their Stories of Progress.

With EAT and Convene continuing to curate, connect and learn, CfAs are planning to continue over the coming years, demonstrating just how effective science-policy-society interfaces are the catalyst for progress on the food systems transformation.

- Build inclusive Communities for Action of frontline food system actors whose collective experience and leadership has the potential to influence change and champion action-recommendations for healthy, sustainable and just food systems.
- Within each CfA, collectively identify actions to accelerate food systems transformation, catalysed by the 2025 EAT-Lancet recommendations and articulated in community Action Briefs that translate scientific findings into actionable solutions.
- Connect across Communities for Action, identifying systemic unlocks and common action areas that require cross-sector collaboration to catalyse impact.
- Bring recommendations into the EAT Stockholm Food Forum and other key global platforms to strengthen momentum and inspire commitments beyond 2025.
The Communities are co-hosted by organisations with convening mandates and deep expertise in their fields.
- AgriFood Finance and Trade — co-hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the World Bank.
- Chefs, Restaurants and Food Service — co-hosted by the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub.
- Cities — co-hosted by C40 Cities, the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP).
- Consumers — co-hosted by Act4Food and Consumers International.
- Farmers and Fishers — co-hosted by the Agroecology Coalition and Regen10.
- Food Retail and Manufacturers — co-hosted by the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
- Healthcare Professionals — co-hosted by PAN (Physicians Association for Nutrition) International.
- Indigenous Peoples — co-hosted by the Indigenous Peoples Food Systems Coalition.
- National Policymakers — co-hosted by the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, CGIAR and the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN).
- Science - hosted by Nexus Action (formerly knows as the Montpellier Process)
- Community for Action members from over 350 organisations over a nine-month period. Each Community for Action brought together key leaders with a representative mix of expertise, experience, background, and geographies.
- Through a curated, iterative co-development process, the CfAs drafted Action Briefs grounded in the scientific evidence of the EAT-Lancet Commissions. Action Briefs set priorities for each community and propose targeted actions that actors can adopt, scale, and adapt to advance healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. Supported by Stories of Progress showcasing real-world initiatives already advancing healthy, sustainable, and just food systems, they underline shared responsibilities across communities and focus on overcoming lock-ins and institutional barriers.
- 100 CfA representatives came together in person for a cross-Communities Action Day on the eve of the Stockholm Food Forum. They shared with each other insights from their Action Briefs, making connections and exploring opportunities for cross-sector and cross-scale collaboration going forward.
- During the Stockholm Food Forum, CfA voices were woven throughout the Forum bringing Stories of Progress and Action Briefs key messages into the conversations.
Areas of impact: Transformative partnerships and collaborative platforms
- 8 Action Briefs and 1 EAT-Lancet Commission Summary for and with Policymakers launched on community GoogleSite.
- 145 Stories of Progress harvested, mapped against 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission thematic areas and compiled on community Google Site
- 15 Common Action Area Maps developed through cross-Action Briefs comparative network analysis and leveraged on Action Day to spark conversation about opportunities for cross-sector collaboration.
- CfAs Key Messages integrated into the EAT Stockholm Food Forum: Insights from the Action Briefs and Action Day dialogues informed the Forum’s high-level sessions.
- Narrative shift: CfA 2025 demonstrated that transformation is most effective when science meets lived experience, and when collective action replaces fragmented effort.
- Community of Communities of 700 professionals from 350 organisations across all world regions shifting discourse and practice in their ecosystems, regions, sectors.
Leveraging the momentum generated by the Stockholm Food Forum, Communities for Action are continuing to champion the Action Briefs and Stories of Progress through their ecosystems.
The Cities CfA reconvened at the MUFPP Global Forum in Milan in the week of 13 October. The National Policymakers CfA came together at UNFSS+4 in Addis and CFS53 in Rome to co-develop and launch the EAT-Lancet Commission Summary for and with Policymakers.
We will continue to support and amplify the Communities for Action as they unlock systemic change across scales. We will also be connecting these processes into Nexus Action - the Montpellier Process and its broad vision and effort to transform science-policy-society interfaces for food system transformation.