PARIS, France (Reuters) — France’s National Assembly approved a draft bill May 30 that would raise regulated minimum food prices and put curbs on supermarket promotions. The legislation is designed to increase farmers’ income, improve food quality and fight waste. The field-to-fork review was a campaign promise of President Emmanuel Macron to farmers who complained […] Read more
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Food industry takes aim at food waste
The Canadian Centre for Food Integrity and an association of food manufacturing organizations will lead the research
Two Canadian food organizations have secured a grant worth more than $650,000 from the Wal-Mart Foundation to examine Canadian attitudes on food waste and to help Canadian food and beverage companies reduce the amount of waste that occurs during their manufacturing processes. The Canadian Centre for Food Integrity and the Provision Coalition — an association […] Read more
By using dumped food, U.S. cities could tackle hunger and waste problems
TEPIC, Mexico, Oct 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Apples, bread, pasta and coffee are high on the list of foods worth $218 billion Americans dump in the bin or pour down the drain each year, much of which could help feed the country’s poorest families, a green group said on Wednesday. Under growing pressure to […] Read more
Students tackle food waste
Three rural Saskatchewan teens hammed it up in a 30 second video to help curb food waste. Kaitlyn Dilsner, Taryn Heidebrecht, and Lauren Palmer, Grade 12 students at Clavet Composite School, invested more than nine hours to produce the video, which took first place and a $500 prize in a Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council competition. […] Read more
Waste not, want not, food for thought
Friends offered these suggestions on how to prevent food waste
The statistics on food waste are staggering. We like to blame transportation, overproduction, processing and packaging but 51 percent of all food waste in Canada is in the home, according to Statistics Canada. Wasting food also wastes resources, including the water used to produce and transport the food. Providing better information on food care and […] Read more
