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Five priorities to operationalize the EAT–Lancet Commission report

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To operationalize the great food system transformation and ensure its sustainability, five areas of research and action require more attention: economic and structural costs; political economy; diversity of cultural norms; equity and social justice; and governance and decision support tools.

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C.B.’s contribution to this work was funded by the ‘Food systems for Healthier Diets’ flagship under the Agriculture for Health and Nutrition (A4NH) CGIAR Research Programme.

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  1. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

    Christophe Béné

  2. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Washington, DC, USA

    Jessica Fanzo

  3. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) https://www.gainhealth.org/

    Lawrence Haddad

  4. City University of London, London, UK

    Corinna Hawkes

  5. University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Patrick Caron

  6. Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France

    Patrick Caron

  7. CGIAR System, Montpellier, France

    Sonja Vermeulen

  8. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Mario Herrero

  9. Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands

    Peter Oosterveer

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Béné, C., Fanzo, J., Haddad, L. et al. Five priorities to operationalize the EAT–Lancet Commission report. Nat Food 1, 457–459 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0136-4

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