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Its part of an emerging industry thats trying to cash in on a senseless human problem: The huge amount of uneaten food that goes from supermarkets and restaurants to the dumpster. Much of that, if its not composted, ends up in landfills where it decays, sending potent planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Enter a new business opportunity. A company called Winnow has developed the AI tool that spies on restaurant garbage. Another, company, Afresh, digests supermarket data to look f...

More than 2 billion people, about a third of the world’s population, face food insecurity. At the same time, a recent UN report estimated that more than 1…

Food waste is a global problem. Here are major drivers and what can be done about it

Most people don’t set out to waste food. And yet, we’re pretty much all guilty of it.  It happens everywhere in our food system. Tomatoes that don’t meet

Via Pexels Grace Smith | July 21, 2022 An estimate of 30 to 40 percent of food in the U.S. is wasted. When food gets wasted, inputs used to store, process, transport, and prepare the food are also wasted. Not only does food waste impact the inputs, but its use of greenhouse gases is worsening…

Food gets wasted at every point in the system. It happens on farms, at factories, in grocery stores and at restaurants. But as we reported in our food

"A major environmental, social, and economic challenge."

Cutting down on food waste is good for the environment—and your wallet.

International partnership aims to highlight scope for philanthropic support in tackling food loss and waste before it reaches the plate

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