Healthy Food Systems within Planetary Limits

Ensuring universal access to healthy, affordable food while staying within Earth’s ecological limits poses urgent social and environmental challenges. Current food systems often degrade soils and waterways, fuel climate change, and marginalize communities — human and more-than-human alike.

This research cluster brings together scholars and practitioners to investigate the social, ecological, and economic dynamics that shape these challenges and to identify transformative pathways forward. Integrating insights from public health, ecology, nutritional science, agriculture, and policy, it advances equitable, regenerative strategies for producing and distributing nutritious food. Ultimately, this cluster seeks to reimagine food systems that support planetary health and collective well-being.