May 17, 2021 10:52 am A number of food waste-reduction projects have received funding through the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), under the Rural Innovation and Development Fund. Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConologue, has announced that €180,000 will be allocated to help reduce the waste that is generated by businesses, retailers and wholesalers, or suppliers in rural areas. Food-waste projects Advertisement Clean Technology Centre, Cork Institute of Technology (CTC-CIT) has been granted €59,900 to provide an online training programme for the industry for national roll out to tackle waste in businesses; Food Cloud has been granted €59,400 for its project that seeks to investigate the potential for increasing surplus food redistribution from the Irish horticulture sector;