Announcing the US Food Loss and Waste Policy Action Plan
When we waste food, we waste an enormous amount of water, land, and money, and we create global warming pollution—but reducing food waste in the U.S. is a...
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Biden Sets Stage for Climate Resilient Food & Agriculture
The connections between climate change and resilience, land use, food production, nutrition, and what we eat have never been clearer. President Biden’s sweepi...
First International Day of Food Loss and Waste Awareness
Today marks the first observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste across the globe. It’s time that we acknowledge the environmenta...
Cities Respond to COVID Needs by Rescuing Surplus Food
When businesses closed to help control the spread of the pandemic and millions of people flocked to food pantries and emergency food distributors, Baltimore, De...
We Must Fix Our Food System to Withstand Disasters
This pandemic has shone a light on the fragility of the broken U.S. food system. ...
Using Metrics to Shape Atlanta's Food Waste Reduction Plan
Using a calculator tool NRDC developed based on the models in our original Food Matters research, we worked with the city of Atlanta’s Mayor’s Office of Res...