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By 2050, humanity will have over two billion more people to feed than we do now. That’s a daunting prospect when we already struggle to feed ourselves without damaging the planet. …

The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), the organization I founded with many dear friends and fellow activists in 1984, is now over three decades old. While …

Think about this for a minute: every year, a third of the world’s food -1.2 billion metric tons - is either lost or wasted. This has both economic and environmental consequences, …

Daily images of drought are a stark reminder of the importance of food for human health and prosperity. And while we know that agriculture is the economic backbone of most …

In early May 2017 we joined food technology innovators and entrepreneurs at the 3rd annual Seeds and Chips Global Food Innovation Summit. The conference featured a keynote address by former …

How collaborative ideation fueled a search for food waste solutions. If food waste were a nation, it would rank third in the world for harmful emissions. Along with the environmental damage, …

The first few months of 2017 have shown encouraging signs that last year’s momentum on food waste continues to grow. Voluntary guidelines to clarify date labels have been launched by …

Crisis is the new normal. In a world increasingly under pressure from different shocks - the effects of trade and labour movement in today's globalized world, repercussions from climate change, …

At times, reducing the 65.2 million tons of food Americans waste every year can feel like an insurmountable task. ReFED estimates that the U.S. spends $218 billion per year growing, …