With spring just around the corner, many of you may be planning your summer gardens, thinking about growing fresh foods, or at the very least looking forward to enjoying the locally grown produce from ...

The Food Waste Solution We Didn't Know We Needed Picture this: a cozy kitchen, the aroma of freshly baked bread wafting ...

Pieces of food disappearing into a bin with every wrong answer and neighbours crafting recipes together with vegetables from their "edible district". Where dry statistics fail, fun and emotions prove ...

Food waste, and food loss which occurs when food is lost before it reaches consumers, are a global challenge. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), about one third ...

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Did you know that nearly 2.5 billion tons of food are wasted every year? If we could recoup just half of that, we could end world hunger. Food waste also has a huge environmental impact. Globally, the ...

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Food waste is an inherent problem of grocery retailers. A 2024 report by ReFED, a nonprofit focused on tackling food waste, estimates that unsold food at the national retail level results in $42.3 ...

The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 ...

Earlier this week, the European Union signed a deal committing to legally binding food waste reduction targets to be met by 2030. Under these targets, food processors and manufacturers are obligated ...