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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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Trixie Croad 10/19/21 Trixie Croad 10/19/21

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.

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 10/9/21 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 10/2/21 Trixie Croad 10/2/21

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.

Trixie Croad 10/2/21 Trixie Croad 10/2/21

PMCSA Project on Food Waste

The Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor is investigating food rescue and food waste as its major project for 2022/2023. They will be publishing a series of reports pertaining to several focus areas throughout this time.

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.

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.