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Farmers Help Fight Food Waste by Donating Wholesome Food

April 03, 2015 Jimmy Nguyen, Food and Nutrition Service

Sometimes Mother Nature and hard work come together to produce a bountiful harvest on the farm. But what if the grocery store, distributor, or processor that the farmer sells to can’t handle any excess? Or, what if a percentage of the crop turns out too big, too small, or oddly shaped and no one...

Food and Nutrition

New York's City Harvest Wins U.S. Food Waste Challenge Competition

January 07, 2015 Elise Golan, USDA Director for Sustainable Development

Beginning in August, food banks across the country competed to see who could sign up the most food donors to the U.S. Food Waste Challenge. From among the 200 food banks in the Feeding America network, the champion is City Harvest in New York City, which won by signing up 114 donors to the Challenge...

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