Eating Better

We are delighted to welcome three new members to the Eating Better alliance. They bring experience from their work in nutrition and health, community and social justice and sustainability within the hospitality sector.

Tropical forests are crucial to life on Earth, helping to provide the conditions for life to thrive on our planet. These biodiverse ecosystems provide us with a range of benefits, or ecosystem services, that range from sequestering carbon and climate regulation to air and water purification, from disease prevention to the provision of shelter, food and medicine. Not to mention the benefits we receive in terms of culture, awe and inspiration.

2025 marks a critical year for forests, with global leaders preparing for COP30, the major climate summit set to take place in Belém, Brazil—deep in the heart of the Amazon. At the same time, businesses are in a final sprint to meet their commitments to eliminate deforestation and habitat conversion from their supply chains by the year’s end.

Change needs to happen. If we continue with our current status quo and food system, then we can say goodbye to healthy food, clean air and water, and the seasons as we know them. With the weight of this pressure resting on our shoulders, for good reason many of us working on changing the food system in whatever form, are worried about getting it wrong. Fear of failure is a huge barrier to change, and reframing our approach might be an effective way to get a rare school of thought adopted more broadly; that change is possible. As the late David Graeber said, “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently”.