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Check out the ways our food banks around the world helped their local Muslim community celebrate Ramadan and reduce food loss and waste

'We must continue to invest in community-led solutions, as well as advance stronger food waste policies to build food systems that nourish people and the planet,' says The Global FoodBanking Network CEO & President Lisa Moon in response to UN Environment Programme's latest food waste report. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Our The Global FoodBanking Network CEO Lisa Moon in The Guardian about UN Environment Programme reporting 19% of food goes to waste:
“We must continue to invest in community-led solutions, as well as advance stronger food waste policies to build food systems that nourish people and the planet'
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.UN Environment Programme's #FoodWaste Index 2024 found that 19% of food is wasted at the consumer, retail, and food service level and emphasizes food banking's role in recovering surplus food at every stage of the supply chain and connecting it to people facing hunger. bit.ly/3VBL1Qu

Don't forget to move today! 💃

Watch how Banco de Alimentos Cáritas Puebla is helping more seniors in its community exercise, socialize, and access nutritious food.

This is what foodbanking looks like during Ramadan: our The Global FoodBanking Network partners in Jordan, Tkiyet Um Ali, feed up to 4,500 people an iftar meal, making sure everyone can break their fast with a hearty meal, regardless of their ability to pay for it.

By me: First came the Maui wildfires. Now come the land grabs theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Children who have enough to eat are much more likely to do well in school. That’s why @RAHphilippines' partnership in Calauan is so important, where its school meal program feeds 3,500 children every day. foodbanking.org/blogs/how-cook…

Palestinians are not starving, they are being intentionally starved by Israel and the countries which suspended funding for ⁦UNRWA⁩ - my exclusive interview with ⁦Michael Fakhri⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

In Brazil, 42% of all food goes to waste. But our The Global FoodBanking Network partner Sesc Mesa Brasil is working to change that, recovering food before it goes to waste and getting it to people who need it. Read Constance Malleret in The Guardian
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See our The Global FoodBanking Network CEO Lisa Moon on SBT, talking about our research on how Brazil can reduce food loss and waste and instead enable our partners at Sesc Mesa Brasil to get donated food to the people who need it most

Enquanto muitos brasileiros jogam alimentos fora, mais de 60 milhões enfrentam situações de insegurança alimentar no país. O Sesc Mesa Brasil ajuda a mudar esse cenário. Veja a reportagem do SBT sobre a atuação do nosso programa. youtube.com/watch?v=Ys96Ci…

A thing I am consistently hearing — that we heard last fall speaking to migrants in Juárez, and that reporters & NGO researchers are also getting over and over — is that the Darien is no longer the worst part of the journey to the US. It’s now Mexico.

New in #Brazil : while 61 million Brazilians face food insecurity, 42% of all food produced goes to waste. With FLPC@HLS and Sesc, we've suggested food policies that can enable food banks to redirect more surplus food to people who need it atlas.foodbanking.org

E para potencializar esse cenário, o Sesc apoiou uma pesquisa, conduzida por Harvard e pela Global Food Banking, em que iniciativas podem ser tomadas para melhorar o cenário de doação de alimentos no país. Veja como isso é possível: atlas.foodbanking.org.

#Sesc MesaBrasil #Sesc

Aproximadamente 61,3 milhões de brasileiros enfrentam insegurança alimentar, mas anualmente o Brasil perde 42% do seu abastecimento alimentar. Há 30 anos, o Sesc Mesa Brasil busca mitigar esse quadro, combatendo à fome e ao desperdício.

NEW policy research with FLPC@HLS & Sesc out today!

More than a quarter of Brazil’s population faces food insecurity, yet 42% of its food supply is lost or wasted every year. These food donation policy recommendations can help: bit.ly/3SYQzme

Alarm sounded and streets are packed #CDMX

AP: 'A boat carrying more than 2 dozen migrants capsized off Panama’s Caribbean coast in an apparent attempt to avoid the treacherous Darien Gap...Panama’s Public Safety Ministry said...boat carrying 27 people – mostly Afghans — capsized...The dead included 2 women and a child'