| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.11.2021 | WW International : , Grubhub, 24 Others Release Open Letter to Congress to Fight Food Waste and Insecurity | Open Letter
The open letter calls on Congress to amend the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (1996).
The 26 signatories, 18 of which are corporate and 8 are nonprofit, include Harvard Law's Food and Policy Clinic, Panera Bread, ... |
| 01.11.2021 | Do Good Foods aims to end retail-level food waste in the US with new chicken brand | As world leaders gather this week for COP 26 in Glasgow, UK, all eyes are on solutions to climate change; and the need to make global food systems more efficient is clearer than ever. One core inefficiency of the food system is food waste, ... |
| 18.10.2021 | Food Waste Market Map: Invest in food waste solutions to fight hunger & climate change | Alexandria Coari is vice president – capital, innovation, and engagement, at ReFED, a food waste-focused nonprofit based in Chicago, US.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those ... |
| 26.07.2021 | Can food systems really get to ‘net zero?’ | Around the world, achieving ‘net zero’ emissions by the middle of this century has become a rallying cry to keep climate change in check and avoid its worst impacts.
Over 120 countries — from highly industrialized nations like Canada, Germa... |
| 01.03.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Why Kroger is pulling out all the stops to reduce food waste | Food waste continues to be a tricky challenge for supermarkets. Although there are a number of innovations and policy changes chipping away at the mountain of food that gets tossed into landfills, the titanic problem remains.
“There is this... |
| 23.12.2020 | Let’s Refocus Agri-Food Tech To Solve Today’s Critical Problems | The 4 S's: See Problems, Seek Solutions, Solve Problems and Scale SolutionsCanva |
| 21.08.2020 | Startup Spotlight: Phood is taking the uncertainty out of food waste for kitchens | Food waste has been one of the biggest themes explored by agrifoodtech entrepreneurs and investors in recent years. Images of empty store shelves may convince some that food waste isn’t an issue, but according to one founder that is far fro... |
| 16.07.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Sericulture startup Mori raises $12m Series A to preserve food with silk | So, common sense was wrong. It turns out you can eat silk! But before you drag out that Kimono of yours and swiftly devour it in celebration, hold on a second — you need a crucial bit of cutting-edge protein extraction technology first.
Ent... |
| 07.05.2020 | ReFED launches $1m Covid-19 food waste relief fund with goal to raise $10m more | Among its many impacts, the ongoing pandemic is worsening food insecurity and food waste in the US and abroad.
Roughly 11% of US households reported experiencing food insecurity during at least some part of 2018, including 4.3% that reporte... |
| 06.05.2020 | Strella Biotech scores $3.3m seed round co-led by Yamaha to track ripeness with IoT | Fruit can be expensive, particularly if it is out of season. This makes the tendency for raspberries to begin cultivating mold before you’ve even gotten your groceries from the supermarket to the fridge all the more aggravating. But a mealy... |
| 30.01.2020 | Fixing The Problem Of Food Waste Requires Partners, Not Just A Product | For startups looking to tackle food waste and other complex global problems, there is an expanding ... [+] group of organizations they can partner with today.Shutterstock |
| 15.11.2018 | ReFED: US Food Waste Startups Have Raised $125m+ in 2018 as Grant Funding in the Space Grows 70% | Food waste startups have raised at least $125 million in the first 10 months of 2018, according to ReFED, the nonprofit dedicated to decreasing the $218 billion of food waste in the United States.
A new report from ReFED also revealed that ... |
| 11.10.2018 | Key Takeaways from the 2018 NYC Food Tank Summit: Focusing on Food Loss and Food Waste | “The problem with food waste is that it’s everyone’s responsibility, so it’s no one’s responsibility,” said Chris Cochran, executive director of ReFED, the multi-stakeholder nonprofit organization committed to reducing US food waste.
Cochra... |
| 18.08.2018 | Factory reset: Tech startups raise big bucks to help companies cut waste | Society has become somewhat accustomed to disposable goods, be it cheap garments, budget phones, or plastic packaging.
But with Earth facing untold apocalyptic catastrophes in the decades to come, there has been a growing push to do somethi... |
| 18.08.2018 | Factory reset: Tech startups raise big bucks to help companies cut waste | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Society has become somewhat accustomed to disposable goods, be it cheap garments, budget phones, or plastic packaging.
But with Earth f... |
| 16.08.2018 | Upcycling: ‘We believe there is a second life for everything’, says Rise CEO | Food waste is an increasingly important issue for both consumers and the food industry. An average family of four leaves more than two million calories, worth nearly $1500, uneaten each year, according to the USDA and EPA. Over 130 billion... |
| 10.07.2018 | More Than a Third of the Fish Killed for Food Gets Thrown Away | It seems that the term ‘catch-and-release’ has taken on an entirely new meaning in today’s global food economy—and not a particularly good one. According to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nation... |
| 20.06.2018 | This High-Tech Coating Will Stop Your Avocados from Ripening Too Quickly | We’ve all walked the frustrating avocado ripeness tightrope. You buy a few greenish avocados from the grocery store on Monday, knowing they’ll be ripe around Thursday morning. You wake up at 10 AM on Thursday and voila! Perfectly ripe. Then... |
| 19.06.2018 | This start-up can make avocados last twice as long before going bad | The new avocados rolling out to Midwest Costco stores this week don’t look like the future of fresh produce. But they’re testing technology that could more than double the shelf life of vegetables and fruits. |
| 31.10.2017 | How This Startup Uses Data Analytics to Reduce Food Waste | According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, one fifth of all the food in the world is already being grown in cities. According to the report, redirecting just one-third of the country's food waste would be enough to feed t... |
| 26.07.2017 | NYC Hosts First Food Waste Fair for Exploding Food Waste Innovation, Revealing Challenges | New York is a good place to start if you’re looking to tackle food waste. The same population density that makes it heaven for delivery startups also means that food waste — possibly from those deliveries — is ripe for the taking.
Food wast... |
| 05.06.2017 | The 4 Shocking Consequences of Food Waste | Ever get to the end of the week faced with a fridge full of rotting produce and gone off meat because plans to cook up a storm got sidetracked by a last minute dinner invitation, or a deadline that kept you working at the office?
You’re not... |
| 23.04.2017 | Full Harvest aims to make access to ‘ugly’ produce easier via B2B marketplace | “Consumers are the largest culprit of food waste. However, between farms versus brokers, most of it happens at the farm level,” CEO and founder of Full Harvest, Christine Moseley, told FoodNavigator-USA. She cited data from the ReFed foo... |
| 21.04.2017 | Earth Day Reflections: Number of Food Waste Startups Rises, Soil Health Needs More Attention | Earth Day provides a prime opportunity to reflect on the state of environmental sustainability in the food and agriculture industry. The impact of growing and producing food is relatively well documented, with the meat industry under partic... |
| 10.03.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Food Waste Org ReFED Hires Walmart Exec, Tom Brady Partners with Purple Carrot, more | ReFED Names Chris Cochran As First Executive Director
ReFED, a collaborative, cross-sector effort of 40 businesses, non-profits, foundations, investors and policymakers committed to reducing food waste in the United States, has named Chris ... |
| 09.01.2017 | Too Much Information Can Cause Food Waste – report | Consumers armed with too much information about the destination of their uneaten food can lead to more food waste, according to new research from the University of Ohio.
Food waste is an increasingly hot topic among policymakers and environ... |
| 17.11.2016 | The Billion Dollar Food Waste Market Investors Are Missing | A collaboration between AgFunder and ReFed, this article aims to highlight some of the technologies working towards reducing food waste globally that are not always associated with the problem.
ReFed is a multi-stakeholder coalition of over... |
| 16.11.2016 | Spoiler Alert Eats $2.5M to Grow Online Surplus Food Marketplace | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
About 42 million Americans struggled with “food insecurity” last year, meaning they lacked access to quality food or went hungry at times. Meanwhile, an estimated 30 to 40 per... |
| 14.04.2016 | Food Waste Startups Grab More Attention as WISErg Raises $12.3m | Food waste is starting to get the attention it deserves. It remains one of the biggest problems affecting the global food system and is particularly troublesome in the United States.
Last week, AgFunderNews reported on a new study conducted... |
| 24.03.2016 | How Entrepreneurs and Investors Can Help Reduce Food Waste by 20% in 10 Years | The US spends over $218 billion, or 1.3 percent of GDP, growing, processing, transporting, and disposing of food that is never eaten, according to a new report. That translates to around 63 million tons of food waste, which is 40 percent of... |
| 11.03.2016 | Industry-in-Brief: Vilsack Supports GMO Labeling, True Made Foods Wins FoodBytes, Cargill Reduces Animal Antiobiotic Use, more | Secretary of AgTom Vilsack Endorses Mandatory GMO Labeling
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced his support for mandatory GMO labeling this week during the Commodity Classic. In support of his position, the Secretary noted a desir... |
| 09.03.2016 | The Guardian “How the US can solve its multibillion food waste problem ?” | How the US can solve its multibillion food waste problem |
| - | Let’s Refocus Agri-Food Tech To Solve Today’s Critical Problems | What critical problems are my actions solving today? Can we in the agri-food tech innovation space ask ourselves this question more frequently?
We live in a time of unprecedented innovation and unprecedented challenges. The determining fac... |
