In the U.S., more than a third of the food supply goes uneaten. The waste happens at multiple levels in the production and supply chain and is a big contributor to climate change. Food that ends up ...

More than 2 billion people, about a third of the world’s population, face food insecurity. At the same time, a recent UN report estimated that more than 1 billion metric tons of food went to waste in ...

Household food waste is an important contributor to global food loss and waste and greenhouse gas emissions, but not much is known about what types of food are wasted the most and by whom. Now, ...

Organically Grown Company (OGC) is the latest signatory of the U.S. Food Waste Pact, a national voluntary agreement to reduce food waste across the country, according to Fresh Plaza. OGC is the first ...

Food waste is a crisis we can no longer ignore. Every year, roughly a third of all food produced for human consumption ends up wasted, totaling over a billion tons globally according to recent reports ...

Most people don’t set out to waste food. And yet, we’re pretty much all guilty of it. It happens everywhere in our food system. Tomatoes that don’t meet product specifications get left on the vine at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

"Green Travel” is a six-part series focusing on what it means to be sustainable travelers, how the industry is moving the needle on greener efforts, and how consumers can reduce their carbon footprint ...

Whether it’s stems and skins or past-their-prime protein and produce, you’re probably throwing a lot of perfectly good food in the trash. Such waste doesn’t come cheap. The average American throws ...