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Food banks struggling for supplies as supermarkets cut waste

A food bank in Amsterdam. Photo: Pascal Maramis via Flickr. Food banks in the Netherlands are sitting on millions of euros in government subsidies they don’t need and haven’t asked for, Trouw reported on Thursday. Food banks were given €4m at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis to cope with an expected increase in demand and to prevent locations from having to close. However, according to umbrella organisation Voedselbank Nederland, all 170 Dutch food banks, which serve some 100,000 c...