corsus provides information in ‘’Ökologie & Landbau‘’ on healthy nutrition for people and the environment

In the new focus issue ‘The Future of Nutrition’ of Ökologie & Landbau from oekom Verlag, Dr Ulrike Eberle writes about the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ and how this allows a balanced, sustainable and ethically responsible diet within the planetary boundaries for all people.

The article ‘Eat healthily and save the world’ explains how this diet should be organised and relates it to current global developments. The planetary boundaries, a concept developed by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) e. V., form the overall framework. The planetary boundaries, which are formulated for climate change, biodiversity, land use changes, freshwater utilisation or the biogeochemical fluxes of nitrogen and phosphorus, for example, define limits for a safe operating space in which human societies can exist and continue to develop. In the areas mentioned, agriculture plays a significant role in the increase in harmful environmental impacts. At the same time, hunger, food insecurity and nutrition-related health problems are on the rise, meaning that the United Nations’ second goal of eradicating hunger worldwide has not yet been achieved.

Against this background, the EAT-Lancet Commission’s ‘Planetary Health Diet’ makes the ground-breaking proposal to achieve a healthy diet for almost 10 billion people in 2050 and at the same time ecologically sustainable food production. In her article, Ulrike Eberle clearly shows what measures need to be taken in order to realise the ambitious goal of the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ and illustrates the immense leverage effect of a sustainable diet. As corsus has already been able to demonstrate in cooperation with the WWF, the environmental impact of nutrition in Germany can be massively reduced by applying the Planetary Health Diet. In ‘Eat healthily and save the world’, specific recommendations are given on the necessary adjustments to agricultural practices, changes to our own eating habits and the reduction of food losses and waste.

We hope you enjoy reading the book and would like to thank ‘Ökologie & Landbau’ for publishing it.