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The Food Donation Improvement Act provides broader protections for agricultural producers, gleaners, and individuals to donate food directly to those in need.

President Joe Biden recently signed the Food Donation Improvement Act (FDIA) into law, legislation making donating food easier than ever. This bill builds President Joe Biden recently signed the Food Donation Improvement Act into law. This legislation makes donating food easier than ever.

Food manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, farmers, and schools now have reason to let go of a fear many of them have long harbored.

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

Waste360 looks at an ambitious policy action plan created by partners who have some large asks of Congress and President Biden.

Food Policy as Climate Policy: How Waste Reduction Can Contribute to a Greener Tomorrow Food Policy as Climate Policy: How Waste Reduction Can Contribute to a Greener Tomorrow April 27, 2021 Food waste is among the most significant – and overlooked – contributors to climate change today, accounting for about eight percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Indeed, if it were its own country, food waste would have the third largest carbon footprint on the planet, outweighing even that o...