Lancet: Conflicts, Climate Change Deepen Global Food Security Gaps

About half of the world's population may not be able to access healthy food, clean environment or earn a living wage, indicating inequities in human health that have been made worse by geopolitical conflicts and climate change, according to a new Lancet report.

- Press Trust Of India

Further, the world's food system - contributing to 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions - is the main driver of challenges the planet faces by impacting climate, biodiversity, land use change, among others, it said.

The crisis of inequity in access to conditions required for good human health and environmental harm due to global food systems threatens human health and the resilience of planet Earth, authors said in the '2025 EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems'.

Launched in January 2019, the 'EAT-Lancet Commission' outlines recommendations for a 'planetary health diet' - favouring fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes and small portions of meat and dairy -and targets for achieving a sustainable food production by 2050.