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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Postharvest Education Foundation
The Postharvest Education Foundation (PEF), a non-profit organisation based in the US with a global reach, runs food loss and waste reduction programmes and provides free resources. Programmes are run by postharvest specialists who teach in local languages and provide practical advice to assist smallholder farmers and small food businesses.
ReFED
ReFED is a US-based non-profit dedicated to ending food loss and waste across the U.S. food system by advancing data-driven solutions. On their website, you can find food waste resources and guides with personalised tools to help identify the most effective food waste solutions.
Upcycled Food Association
The UFA is a membership-based representative body for the upcycled food industry. They conduct research in the upcycled food space and support others in the industry. At the forefront of the upcycled food movement, this is the place to go for all things upcycled food.
WasteMINZ
WasteMINZ is the largest representative body of the waste, resource recovery, and contaminated land management sectors in New Zealand. In 2013, WasteMINZ launched a national food waste prevention programme and has conducted much of the research on food waste in New Zealand to date.
WRAP
WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Program) is a non-profit research and action organisation based in the UK. It is one of the leading organisations globally for food waste reduction across the supply chain. Its website has a plethora of resources available for use.