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GFN welcomes the USDA's launch of a National Strategy to Reduce Food Loss and Waste and Recycle Organics! Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vislack shared the news on stage at #FoodWasteSummit2024 with ReFED founder Dana Gunders.   This is a crucial step in achieving #SDG123, reducing food loss and waste by 50% by 2030, and ensuring good food always make it to our plates instead of landfills.   We hope to see more countries establish national strategies that prevent waste and encourage food recovery for inevitable surplus. Explore our National #FLW Strategies issue brief with Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic for best practices and ways to partner with locally led food banks to achieve #FLW goals. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eA4GfBVv #FoodWaste #ZeroHunger #ZeroWaste #StopFoodWaste #FoodBanks

Three UK-wide party manifestos means three visions for the future of farming.   🔵 The Conservatives stress that feeding the nation is the 'primary job' for farmers. They would introduce a legally binding target for food security, building on their announcements at the Farm to Fork summit.   🔶 For the Lib Dems, food and farming are interlinked. While promising to support British farmers, they want to give everyone access to 'affordable, healthy and nutritious food' and protect the environment.   🔴 Labour's proposals are funnelled through the lens of climate, nature and energy. Though its manifesto doesn't give much detail in an 87-word section, the party aims to 'champion' British farmers at the same time as meeting the UK's Environment Act commitments for air, water and wildlife. It's pleasing to see promises across the board to maintain England's Environmental Land Management Scheme.   The Tories and Lib Dems call for differing amounts of extra funding. Labour are more coy about a cash injection, but say they will make the schemes 'work for farmers and nature'.   Money aside, all the parties could go further in communicating a long-term strategy for food production. They could lay out targets for farms adopting specific sustainable, regenerative or organic approaches, and explain how programmes like ELMS are directed to these goals. (Agriculture is obviously a devolved issue, but the Westminster parties could acknowledge how farming policies in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland can work in the same direction.)   They all agree on the need for farmers to be protected in future trade deals. Labour and the Lib Dems go the furthest in saying that any new agreements will include the highest standards around food.   There's less consensus about the need for action in the domestic supply chain, in which farmers are taking on all the risk, suffering unfair terms and being squeezed by highly competitive retailers, processors and manufacturers. The two biggest parties are silent on the topic (plans for public procurement aside). The Lib Dems would 'strengthen' the Groceries Code Adjudicator to protect both consumers and support farmers. Politicians worry about spooking big business and the spectre of higher food prices, but this is a crucial area. Pairing a tougher trade policy with proper regulation at home would helping farmers make a reasonable return, so they can make positive changes far beyond the food they grow.   Read together, the manifestos show that there's still so much work to do. Citizens, farmers and business have been telling the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission about the need for joined-up action across food and health, farming, and land use decision-making. The parties have some sense of how these issues are connected, but their plans don't match the scale of ambition required.

📣 Call to Action 📣 Sign the ZFWC’s Food Loss & Waste Appropriations Funding Requests Open Letters It’s Appropriations season, which is one of the most significant opportunities for advocates to voice their priorities and concerns to Congress by suggesting where funding should be allocated during the 2025 fiscal year.  At this crucial time, the Zero Food Waste Coalition (ZFWC) is requesting the federal Appropriations Committees provide funding to address food loss and waste. The coalition is releasing two open letters for the Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations: 📬 The first letter will be sent to the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees in the House and Senate, requesting funding for the USDA Food Loss and Waste Reduction Liaison. 📬 The second letter will be sent to the Interior Appropriations Subcommittees in the House and Senate, requesting funding for the EPA to implement a national consumer education campaign. If you support these priorities, please sign on to our letters to the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee and the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee. To do so, please fill out this form → https://lnkd.in/dQvMhaj2

📣Call to Action 📣 Sign the Zero Food Waste Coalition’s Food Loss & Waste Appropriations Funding Requests Open Letters! It’s Appropriations season, which is one of the most significant opportunities for advocates to voice their priorities and concerns to Congress by suggesting where funding should be allocated during the 2025 fiscal year.  At this crucial time, the ZFWC is requesting the federal Appropriations Committees provide funding to address food loss and waste. We are releasing two open letters for the Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations: 📬The first letter will be sent to the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees in the House and Senate, requesting funding for the USDA Food Loss and Waste Reduction Liaison. 📬The second letter will be sent to the Interior Appropriations Subcommittees in the House and Senate, requesting funding for the EPA to implement a national consumer education campaign. If you support these priorities, please sign on to our letters. To do so, please fill out this form → https://lnkd.in/eTah_MsZ

📣 Join Share My Meals Inc. in requesting funding for food loss & waste prevention through fiscal year 2025 #Appropriations! It’s Appropriations season, which is one of the most significant opportunities for advocates to voice their priorities and concerns to Congress by suggesting where funding should be allocated during the 2025 fiscal year. At this crucial time, Share My Meals is proud to have signed the Zero Food Waste Coalition's open letters outlining requests to the federal Appropriations Committees to provide food loss and waste prevention funding. 📬 The first letter will be sent to the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees in the House and Senate, requesting funding for the USDA Food Loss and Waste Reduction Liaison. 📬 The second letter will be sent to the Interior Appropriations Subcommittees in the House and Senate, requesting funding for the EPA to implement a national consumer education campaign. ✍ If you support these priorities, please consider signing these letters by filling out this form → https://lnkd.in/dQvMhaj2 #FoodLossPrevention #FoodWastePrevention #ZeroFoodWasteCoalition #AppreciationsSupportLetter #OpenLetter #MealRecoveryRevolution

Happy Saturday to All Food Lovers! Keto Powerflax Food for Thought: Why are we boycotting Food Chain in May? Many of hard working food manufacturers, bakeries and store chain suppliers have experienced the following operating cost increases in the last 35 years: Property Taxes 5x Rents/ Leases 4x Gasoline 140% Business Insurance 3x Packaging Materials 6x Labour Costs 2x Hydro and Gas Utilities 3x GS1 costs from $0 to $$$$$ Ingredients 3x Cost of Borrowing 2.5x Advertising 3x So, how can we boycott one company and hurt so many others??? Address your Anger towards the Government on wasting your hard earned tax payers money instead! Vote in Confidence! #peace #health #foodcosts #livingstandards #autoimmunesystem

Did you know that the UK Government spends roughly £1.9 billion on food and catering services in public settings across England? 🍴💰 This money could be spent in a way that supports nature-friendly farming and creates opportunities for #local food businesses and small producers. We're asking that all political parties commit to harnessing the power of public procurement to support SME and local enterprises, enable dynamic food procurement, and to introduce mandatory environmental and nutritional standards to be implemented across the public sector.

We have the science, the technology, the resources, and the expert partners to make a difference today. Consumers want food that is safe, nutritious, and affordable (throwing away food is not). Companies are tired of throwing away more profits from food than they make. We have come to a point where there is more food waste than has ever existed and at the same time there are more solutions to food waste than have ever existed. We need fewer spectators, influencers, and noisemakers. The team at ReFED & Dana Gunders has done so much to shape this topic and lead. There are too many people to individually thank for getting food waste policy to this point (so we won't try). To everyone else the message is simple: We need fewer spectators, influencers, and noisemakers. 📢 Now is the time for changemakers, doers, and fixers

This The Wall Street Journal article highlights the significant impact food costs have on consumer spending, reaching levels not seen in over three decades. This underscores the importance of seeking innovative solutions in agriculture. At Farmland LP, we believe in the power of regenerative farming to address these challenges head-on, offering both economic and environmental benefits.