Lancet report points to inequities in global food security, made worse by conflicts, climate change

NEW DELHI, Oct 3: 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. 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