The report notes that action is required in all three of WWF's global strategic pillars - sustainable production, sustainable diets and food loss and waste - in order to feed the world within planetary boundaries.

In particular, the report recommends a new planetary diet, which is mostly plant-based, with modest amounts of meat, fish and dairy. Joao Campari, Global Leader of WWF's Food Practice said:
 

“The food system is broken. It must be able to protect biodiversity while providing sufficient nutrition to all current and future generations. Yet right now, it is the single biggest threat to nature and billions of people are malnourished.  Without concerted action, the environmental impacts are poised to get much worse by 2050. The EAT-Lancet Commission has shown through detailed analysis that by taking a systemic approach and tackling all three pillars of the food system -  production, diets, and loss and waste - it is possible to provide healthy food for a growing population within planetary boundaries – but we need to act urgently and with pragmatism to transform at scale.

Globally, our current dietary patterns are not sustainable, neither in terms of health for the planet nor for people. We welcome the rigorous scientific analysis the Commission has applied and agree that diets need to radically transform. This is a critical contribution to food security, and very timely in this current UN Decade of Action on Nutrition. However, WWF recognizes that diets are highly personal and are heavily influenced by local cultures and individual choices. As such, we avoid being prescriptive in recommending what people eat, rather encourage the adoption of balanced diets with better foods. A balanced diet meets National Dietary Guidelines in terms of nutrition but also ensures there is diversification and no over-reliance on any select commodities. Better foods ensure those diversified commodities are sustainably produced and ideally consumed locally and seasonally. When it comes to selecting better foods, we have choices: we can either stop eating foods with the biggest environmental impacts, or we can reduce the impacts of the foods we eat, or do both.

The concept of a planetary diet provides a useful framework, but it must be reinforced that availability, affordability and accessibility must be taken into account. Many families are food insecure because they do not have the ability to reduce or remove high-impact foodstuffs without damaging their health or their livelihoods. For many people eating better to improve nutrition would also increase environmental impacts. The appropriate solution is to put their nutrition first, but also to explore how to help these communities meet their nutritional needs through more sustainable farming, which protects their health, environment and livelihoods. As the Commission states, the role of animal source foods in people’s diets must be carefully considered in each context and within local and regional realities. WWF supports balanced and better diets which are locally relevant, giving people both choice and ability to live healthy, enriched lives while preserving nature.

WWF is committed to transforming the food system and works with multiple stakeholders to improve food production so as to minimize environmental impact while providing food and nutrition security, reducing food loss and waste, and increasing awareness and access to sustainable dietary choices.  We are pleased that the Commission has also concluded that efforts are needed across many sectors to address all three areas simultaneously.  We will continue to find ways to encourage the adoption of balanced and better diets, and look forward to working with many partners, including the EAT-Lancet Commission.  Together it is possible to fix our food system.”