Food Security and Planetary Health: What Needs to Change on Our Plates?

Food security is high on the agenda as geopolitical instability, supply-chain disruption, climate change and ecosystem degradation expose vulnerabilities across the food system.

Building resilience into food production is essential. But what we produce and eat is also part of the resilience equation. Dietary shifts can help strengthen food security while supporting human and planetary health, provided that healthier and more sustainable choices are also attractive, affordable and accessible.

The updated EAT-Lancet Commission provides a scientific framework for healthy, sustainable and just food systems. The challenge now is to translate this direction into practical action, accelerating the shift towards plant-rich diets while creating viable opportunities for farmers, innovators and businesses.

At this interactive roundtable, Oatly, in collaboration with the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, will bring together voices from policy, science, business, finance and civil society at the Swedish Pavilion. Together, we will explore how policy, public procurement, corporate purchasing and investment can help healthy and sustainable food solutions reach scale faster, while strengthening farmers’ livelihoods and food-system resilience.

We will ask:

• How can a shift towards healthy, plant-rich diets contribute to greater food security and resilience?
• How can governments and businesses make healthy and sustainable food more attractive, affordable and accessible?
• How can public procurement, corporate purchasing and investment strengthen demand for sustainable food while creating viable opportunities for farmers?
• What is preventing proven food-system solutions from reaching the mainstream, and how can we remove those barriers faster?

The conversation will focus on practical solutions across the food value chain and the respective roles of policymakers, farmers, food producers, investors, businesses and consumers. Our aim is to identify actions that can accelerate the transition towards a food system that is healthy, sustainable, just and resilient enough for the challenges ahead.