While food banks depend on food and financial donations, they also rely heavily on another key resource: time, generously donated by volunteers. Volunteers are vital to ensuring that food banks keep warehouses open and trucks on the road, and they ensure that nutritious food reaches those facing hunger in their communities. The logistics of managing…
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As the world’s major developed and emerging economies, the countries of the G20 hold a strategic role in shaping a sustainable future for people and planet. Strong food donation policies—which address pressing issues like food loss and waste, food insecurity, and climate change—are critical to this future. Ahead of the 2022 G20 Bali Summit, we’re…
Employee engagement programs make a meaningful impact and are a win-win all around—for staff members, the companies they work for, and the community organizations that benefit. We sat down with Qiana M. Williams, GFN’s associate director of employee engagement, to learn why giving back is important and how companies can engage their employees to partner…
Earlier this month, The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) convened a meeting of its Board of Directors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Board members, food bank leaders, and GFN staff united around the shared goal of strengthening and sustaining food banks to feed our local communities. Below we share a few of the most important highlights…
October 13, 2022 — As World Food Day approaches, global hunger remains chronic while 1.3 billion tons of food–much of it safe and nutritious–is wasted annually. Wasted food decomposes in landfills, producing methane, which significantly contributes to climate change. New research shares how national leaders in Ecuador and Ghana can strengthen food donation policies to…
The Global FoodBanking Network and Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic identify policy recommendations designed to decrease food waste, support food donation, and combat climate change in Ecuador. October 13, 2022 (Ecuador) —Today, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) released a new analysis…
The Global Food Donation Policy Atlas Identifies Key Barriers to Food Donation and Recommends Policy Actions in Ghana. Ghana (October 13, 2022) —New research shares policy recommendations for strengthening food donations in Ghana to help mitigate food waste, hunger, and climate change. Produced by the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and…
The cost-of-living crisis is not going away any time soon. Food, fuel, and fertilizer costs—while not has high as they were earlier this year—are still exorbitantly expensive, affecting people’s access to affordable basic goods and services. These steep price tags—caused by inflation, ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change-related events, and conflict in Ukraine…
Members of The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) are helping to avoid millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions by redistributing food to help families cope with the cost-of-living crisis. Member food banks in nearly 50 countries recovered 514,537 metric tons of surplus food and distributed that food to 39 million people, according to our recent…
Climate change has significant implications on food systems and the communities who depend on them—affecting agricultural productivity, food supply chains, hunger and malnutrition, and economic livelihoods. At the same time, food systems emit nearly one third of global greenhouse gases, contributing to ongoing climate change effects that worsen these issues. Building food systems that are…