Food (and water) Waste

In the News

see also

World Food Clock [including food waste] -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

Water
Nutrition
Nutritional Psychology
World Hungar
Food: Global Issues
Food Security

 

We Feed the World film Viewing Guide

Wikipedia:
We Feed the World
Malnutrition
List of countries by percentage of population suffering from undernourishment
Hunger -- Wikipedia
Illnesses related to poor nutrition
Nutrition
List of famines
United Nations World Food Programme

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• How South Korea Puts Its Food Scraps to Good Use rem waste -- The New York Times (14 June 2023)
  
  
• How technology is tackling food waste and changing the fresh produce supply chain for the better -- The Packer (31 March 2023)
  
  
• Wasted food, hungry Americans – is donating surplus produce a solution? -- The Guardian (17 November 2022)
  
  
• EU wastes 153m tonnes of food a year – much more than it imports, says report -- The Guardian (20 September 2022)
  
  
• The edible food that you will never eat -- BBCReel (22 February 2022)
  
  
• Plastic packaging increases fresh food waste, study finds -- The Guardian (23 February 2022)
  
  
• Why the ancient art of gleaning is making a comeback across England -- The Guardian (19 February 2022)
  
  
• Using the sun to fight food waste -- BBCNews (13 February 2022)
  
  
• Food Waste is a Growing Problem in the U.S. -- The Packer (06 January 2022)
  
  
• California tackles food waste with largest recycling program in US -- The Guardian (09 December 2021)
  
  
• Jasmine Crowe: What Can We Do To Tackle Food Waste And Hunger? [Part 3 of TED Radio Hour episode: The Food Connection] --
• NPR (03 September 2021)
  
  
• Eat this to save the world! The most sustainable foods – from seaweed to venison -- The Guardian (29 June 2021)
  
  
• Food Waste Could Power the Jet Engines We're Currently Flying With, Scientists Say -- Futurrism (16 March 2021)
  
  
• Food waste: Amount thrown away totals 900 million tonnes -- BBCNews (04 March 2021)
  
  
• People wasting almost 1bn tonnes of food a year, UN report reveals -- The Guardian (04 March 2021)
  
  
• The South African chefs fighting hunger with food waste -- BBCNews (02 February 2021)
  
  
• China to bring in law against food waste with fines for promoting overeating -- The Guardian (23 December 2020)
  
  
• How to save money on a Christmas feast and also cut food waste -- The Guardian (14 December 2020)
  
  
• Study: Fix to food climate problem doesn't require veganism -- MPRNews (05 November 2020)
  
  
• Time to get serious about food waste in fight against global heating -- The Guardian (24 September 2020)
  
  
• China's Looming Corn Shortage Fans Food Security Unease -- AgWeb (02 September 2020)
  
  
• Xi Declares War on Food Waste, and China Races to Tighten Its Belt -- The New York Times (21 August 2020)
  
  
• China restaurant apologises for weighing customers waste -- BBCNews (15 August 2020)
  
  
• China launches 'Clean Plate' campaign against food waste -- BBCNews (13 August 2020)
  
  
• Meet the Gleaners, Combing Farm Fields to Feed the Newly Hungry -- The New York Times (06 July 2020)
  
  
• Food Waste: the key to the three greatest challenges -- Philippe Schuler (13:41) -- TEDx Talks
  (04 June 2020)
  
  
• Food-waste firm bags Oprah Winfrey and Katy Perry as investors -- The Guardian (26 May 2020)
  
  
• 'A disastrous situation': mountains of food wasted as coronavirus scrambles supply chain -- The Guardian (09 April 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns -- The Guardian (26 March 2020)
  
  
• We're worse with food waste than we think -- BBCNews (12 February 2020)
  
  
• From rubbish to rice: the cafe that gives food in exchange for plastic -- The Guardian (24 December 2019)
  
  
• German students say fines for stealing supermarket waste 'absurd' -- BBCNews (08 November 2019)
  
  
• Quilombo cuisine: Rescuing the ancient cuisine of African slaves food -- BBCNews (22 September 2019)
  
  
• To reduce food waste, FDA urges 'best if used by' date labels -- MPRNews (23 May 2019)
  
  
• Meal-prep kits better for environment than a trip to the store, study finds -- The Guardian (23 April 2019)
  
  
• The truth about expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain -- The Guardian (17 April 2019)
  
  
• A Beautiful World: To cut waste, food bank teaches students to cook -- MPRNews (25 March 2019)
  
  
• An offal waste: why you should be eating ox heart – recipe -- The Guardian (06 February 2019)
  
  
• Asda trials refills at 'sustainability store' -- BBCNews (16 January 2020)
  
  
• The female entrepreneur stopping food waste -- BBCNews (06 January 2020)
  
  
• Italy proposes to cut prices for food sold without packaging -- The Guardian (10 October 2019)
  
  
• Restaurants could make £7 for every £1 invested in cutting waste, report reveals -- The Guardian (13 February 2019 )
  
  
• Fighting 'all you can eat' waste -- BBCNews (02 February 2019)
  
  
• Even our own bodies now contain plastic waste. It’s time to get drastic -- The Guardian (27 September 2018)
  
  
• How to avoid food waste: top chefs on their grandparents' favourite dishes - and what they taught them -- The Guardian (27 September 2018)
  
  
• Fish waste-based alternative to plastic wins Dyson Award -- BBCNews (19 September 2019)
  
  
• The World Wastes Tons of Food. A Grocery ‘Happy Hour’ Is One Answer -- The New York Times (08 September 2019)
  
  
• Nonprofit helps good food not go to waste -- MPRNews (22 August 2018)
  
  
• Food waste: alarming rise will see 66 tonnes thrown away every second -- The Guardian (20 August 2018)
  
  
• Lebanon is drowning in its own waste -- BBCfuture (28 March 2018)
  
  
• Coconut controversy: Shoppers query use of plastic wrapping -- BBCNews (10 January 2018)
  
  
• 'Latte levy' of 25p urged by MPs in bid to cut cup waste -- BBCNews (05 January 2018)
  
  
• Co-op sells food after 'best before' dates in waste crackdown -- BBCNews (04 December 2017)
  
  
• Raw waste water use on farms is '50% higher' than estimated -- BBCNews (05 July 2017)
  
  
• Americans waste food because we're confused — and because we can -- USA TODAY (20 May 2017)
  
  
• Eat it, don't leave it: How London became a leader in anti-food waste -- MPRNews (22 November 2016)
  
  
• The student trying to solve the food waste crisis -- BBCNews (14 August 2018)
  
  
• Americans waste 150,000 tons of food each day – equal to a pound per person -- The Guardian (18 April 2018)
  
  
• Household food waste level 'unacceptable' -- BBCNews (30 April 2017)
  
  
• Chew On This For Earth Day: How Our Diets Impact The Planet -- The Salt, NPR (22 April 2017)
  
  
• This Rio Restaurant Is Using Surplus Food From the Olympic Village to Feed the Homeless -- Smithsonian (18 August 2016)
  
  
• Viewpoint: The waste mountain of coffee cups -- BBCNews (27 July 2016)
  
  
• From field to fork: the six stages of wasting food -- The Guardian (14 July 2016)
  
  
• Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests -- The Guardian (13 July 2016)
  
  
• Supermarkets encouraging families to spend £700 a year on uneaten food, MPs say, as Government launches waste inquiry -- The Telegraph (12 July 2016)
  
  
• We shoppers aren’t to blame for food waste. Guess who is -- The Guardian (18 June 2016)
  
  
• 'We will give that food to someone who is hungry' -- BBCNews (10 June 2016)
  
  
• Serving wedding guests food destined for the bin [landfill] -- BBCNews (01 May 2016)
  
  
• The great cabbage myth -- BBCNews (06 April 2016)
  
  
• Feds enlist religious groups to fight food waste -- MPRNews (18 January 2016)
  
  
• Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story [film] -- Grant Baldwin, Director (58 min., 2014)
  
  
• The role food waste plays in climate change -- MPRNews (30 September 2014)
  
  
• Wasting food is more than a waste of money -- Marketplace (15 September 2015)
  
  
• Turn Food Waste Into Ice Cream for Fun and Profit -- National Geographic (15 September 2015)
  
  
• Is France’s supermarket waste law heading for Europe? -- BBC News (18 August 2013)
  
  
• How much water does it take to grow a hamburger? -- U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey (13 July 2015)
  
  
• 8 tips to reduce food waste at home this holiday season -- MPRNews (03 December 2014)
  
  
• Humans' Amazing Evolution From Hunter-Gatherer to Safeway Shopper -- National Geographic News (09 November 2014)
  
  
• 'Your dinner's in the bin' say Hampshire freegan friends -- BBC News (25 December 2013)
  
  
• Waste not: The restaurant that serves up rejected food -- BBC News (27 December 2013)
  
  
• Minnesota garbage study offers 'wake up call' -- MPRNews (18 November 2013)
  
  
• Wasted food takes heavy toll on environment -- MPRNews (11 September 2013)
  
  
• Wasting food is like stealing from the poor: Pope Francis denounces 'culture of waste' -- Nathan Gray, FOODNavigator (07 June 2013)
  
  
• Americans Throw Out 40 Percent of their Food, Which is Terrible for the Climate -- Katie Valentine, Nation of Change (06 June 2013)
  
  
• U.S. Food Waste Challenge -- USD/EPA
  
  
• Picturing food waste -- MPRNews (27 April 2012)

Harvesting of oats in Jølster, Norway ca. 1890.
(Photo: Axel Lindahl / Norwegian Museum of Cultural History)
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