The Brussels Development Briefing n.60 on “The future of food and agricultural transformation” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat and CONCORD was held on Wednesday 26 February 2020 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels. The briefing presented trends and discussed the sustainable and healthy food systems, the future of work in agriculture and the need for new skills in very complex food chains, the effects of disruptive innovations, fair and inclusive value chains and trade. The audience was made up of ACP-EU policy-makers and representatives of the EU Member States, civil society groups, research networks and development practitioners, the private sector and international organisations based in Brussels as well as representatives from ACP regional organisations.

1. Food
Planet
Health
The EAT-Lancet Commission on
Healthy Diets From
Sustainable Food Systems

2. We are not yet bending
environmental curves

3. Target 1 – Healthy Diets
2500 kcal/day

4. Target 1 – Healthy Diets
2500 kcal/day
week
week
100 (0-200)
210 (0-420)
90 (0-175)
+ 210 (0-700)
610 (0-1500)
210
434
133
280

5. Target 1 – Healthy Diets
2500 kcal/day

8. www.healthdata.org

9. Target 2 – Sustainable Food Production
No new emissions from
Agriculture
0 land expansion
>30% flows in basins
Pollution
<1 – 2.5 mg N L-1
Pollution
<50- 100 mg P m-3
50% land intact by
ecoregion
Global
Implication

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1. Commit & act on healthy diets.
2. Produce quality food.
3. Make agriculture regenerative.
4. Spare half for nature, share the rest.
5. Halve food loss & waste.
The next 100 years

11. Feeding 10 billion people a healthy diet within safe
planetary boundaries is possible and will improve the
health and well being of millions of people and allow
us to pass onto our children a viable planet.