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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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

Trixie Croad 10/15/21 Trixie Croad 10/15/21

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.

Trixie Croad 10/13/21 Trixie Croad 10/13/21

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.

Trixie Croad 10/10/21 Trixie Croad 10/10/21

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.

Trixie Croad 10/10/21 Trixie Croad 10/10/21

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.

Trixie Croad 10/9/21 Trixie Croad 10/9/21

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.

Trixie Croad 9/30/21 Trixie Croad 9/30/21

Routledge Handbook of Food Waste

This academic edited book published in 2020 contains 31 chapters focusing on various aspects of food waste-related theory and research, each written by top academics in the field. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of food waste research that exists.

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Save 1/3

Save 1/3 is a public awareness campaign run by the World Wildlife Fund. This campaign raises awareness about the 1/3 of all food produced that is wasted. The campaign focuses on the environmental impacts of this waste, particularly the impacts on climate change.

Trixie Croad 9/28/21 Trixie Croad 9/28/21

Stop Food Waste Day

As a global leader in food service, Compass Group US introduced Stop Food Waste Day in 2017 before going global in 2018. Their commitment stretches from working with suppliers, implementing sustainable practices in Compass Group’s operations and raising the public profile of the issue.

Trixie Croad 9/25/21 Trixie Croad 9/25/21

Waste Matters: New perspectives on food and society

This academic edited book was published in 2011 as issue 60 in the Sociological Review. The 12 chapters provide various sociological perspectives on the intersection of food and waste, as it can be explained through social theory.

Trixie Croad 9/23/21 Trixie Croad 9/23/21

Waste: Uncovering the global food scandal

This 2012 book written by Tristram Stuart, founder of Feedback Global, was the first widely popular exposé of the food waste issue. The book explains the parallel issues of mass food waste and food insecurity and is a call to action to redesign our food system.