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Dublin City Council’s new online ‘Eat the Streets!’ Festival begins tomorrow, 11th June, with a Cook Along with the Lord Mayor and Ellie Kisyombe of Our Table. 

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue. \Philip Doyle Food waste reduction projects are to receive almost €180,000 in funding under the Rural Innovation and Development Fund, Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has announced. Minister McConalogue said the projects would “contribute to our commitment to reduce the amount of food we waste in accordance with the United Nations sustainable development goals, including SDG 12.3, which calls on all nations to halve food waste and reduce food loss by 2030". “These initiatives will further enhance the work previously funded to...

The Enactus Ireland 2021 National Competition, now in its 10th year in operation, is part of a global network, aiming to tackle the social problems of today by ...

Irish households and cafes are dumping food at a rate of more than 100kg per person every year in careless practices that are adding to an international food waste crisis. A UN report found 17pc of all food produced worldwide  goes uneaten – twice as much as previously thought. That means pointless use of energy and other resources in growing, processing, packaging, chilling, transportation and disposal. The squandered energy is responsible for up to 10pc of global greenhouse gas emissions and it increases food costs, making matters worse for billions of people who go hungry or exist on in...

Image source: Food Cloud Irish social enterprise FoodCloud has redistributed the equivalent of 100 million meals to its network of community group and charity partners across Ireland and the UK since 2013. That is the equivalent of 20 meals per person in Ireland. 2020 has been an extraordinary year for many, including the enterprise, who experienced “extreme peaks and troughs in the supply of food, limited volunteers and restrictive Covid-19 work practices”. Impact of the pandemic FoodCloud works with retail and food businesses across the supply chain to help them redistribute their surp...