Connection Hub
Our Connection Hub connects you to other organisations, campaigns and resources around the world that we have identified and may be useful when researching food waste. For Food Waste Innovation’s own resources, visit the Our Resources page.
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Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance
Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance (AFRA) is the representative body for food rescue organisations around New Zealand. AFRA is supporting NZ food rescue organisations through advocacy work, by building capacity, supporting best practice, and by enabling collaboration.
American Wasteland: How America throws away nearly half of its food
This 2012 book by Jonathan Bloom sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable food movements. Bloom digs up not only why and how we waste, but, more importantly, what we can do to change our ways.
African Postharvest Losses Information System
The African Postharvest Losses Information System (APHLIS) is the foremost international effort to collect, analyse and disseminate data on postharvest losses of cereal grains in sub-Saharan Africa. APHLIS includes estimates of the economic and nutritional dimensions of postharvest loss.
Champions 12.3 (International)
Champions 12.3 is a coalition of executives from governments, businesses, international organisations, research institutions, farmer groups, and civil society dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilising action, and accelerating progress toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 12.3 by 2030
Compost Collective
The Compost Collective is an educational non-profit organisation teaching New Zealanders about home composting. Based in Auckland, they run composting workshops and programmes and have a website full of great advice and toolkits on various options for home composting.
Driven to Waste: The global impact of food loss and waste on farms
This report published in 2021 by the World Wildlife Fund and Tesco is the first quantification of on-farm food loss and waste since 2011. Its findings suggest global levels to be much higher than the previously recognised 33.3% of all food, estimating that as much as 40% of all food produced globally is lost or wasted.
EU FUSIONS
FUSIONS, Food Use for Social Innovation by Optimising Waste Prevention Strategies, is a program funded by the European Commission which ran from 2012-2016. The programme partnered with 13 European countries to develop a shared vision and strategy to prevent food loss and waste across the supply chain through social innovation.
Food and Agriculture Organisation
The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has commissioned work in the food waste space, including a global food loss and waste database, a food loss and waste definition framework, and an international day of awareness for food loss and waste.
Feedback Global
Feedback is a non-profit research, activism, and action organisation based in the UK tackling issues within the food system. On their website, Feedback Global has research outputs as well as toolkits for running food waste advocacy events.
Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre
Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre is Australia’s leading authority on academic food waste research. Their research is focused on 3 programme areas; reducing supply chain losses; transforming waste resources; and education and behaviour change. Their website details projects within these programmes and provides access to their database of more than 50 publications.
Food Tank
Food Tank is a food systems ‘think tank’ that writes journalistic articles about our food system to advocate for a more sustainable and equitable global food system. You can search their website specifically for food waste-related articles in the ‘news’ tab.
Food Loss and Waste Protocol
FLW Protocol was established to standardise the way food loss and waste is measured. They develop the FLW standard as well as other useful tools to provide easy, best practice instructions for measuring food waste and its impacts in many different contexts. This is a great place to go at the beginning of any food waste quantification journey.
Food Waste: Home consumption, material culture, and everyday life
Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, this 2014 book by sociologist David Evans unearths the processes that lie behind the volume of food currently wasted by households and consumers, as well as considering innovative solutions to the problem.
FoodWIN
Food Waste Innovation Network (FoodWIN) is a non-profit organisation based in Belgium. They are a team of food waste experts working to find solutions to food waste problems. Their knowledge hub provides resources developed by their team on a range of food waste issues and solutions.
Further with Food: Centre for food loss and waste solutions
This US-based knowledge-sharing platform provides a channel to find and share information about proven food waste solutions and innovative new approaches to reducing food loss and waste. You can find a resource using various search options or share resources, which are vetted before appearing on the site.
Love Food Hate Waste (NZ)
Based on the campaign of the same name run by WRAP in the UK, Love Food Hate Waste is an education campaign run by WasteMINZ. The campaign is aimed at New Zealand families to help them reduce their household food waste.
Love Food Hate Waste (UK)
Love Food Hate Waste is an education campaign run by WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Program) in the UK, aimed at consumers to help them reduce their household food waste. Their website provides resources for individuals to help reduce their food waste at home.
Ministry for the Environment
The Ministry for the Environment has taken up the work on behalf of the government to reduce food loss and waste in New Zealand. This page provides an overview of what The Ministry, as well as other government and non-government organisations in New Zealand, are doing in this space.
NZ Champions 12.3
New Zealand's Champions 12.3 are a coalition of representatives from across the food supply chain, championing Aotearoa's progress towards halving food waste by 2030. The coalition comprises executives from large retailers, small start-ups, food rescue charities, membership organisations and more.
NZ Parliament Environment Committee’s Investigation into Food Waste
This report is the result of a government investigation into food loss and waste in New Zealand. The report puts forth recommendations to the government for how best to address New Zealand’s food waste issue.