FIGHTING FOOD WASTE: The first WNC Food Waste Solutions Summit since 2019 takes place Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Mission Health/A-B Tech Conference Center. Photo courtesy of Cathy Cleary WNC Food Waste ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. When we started working on this ...

VACAVILLE, CA - APRIL 20: A tractor drives past piles of compost at the Jepson Prairie Organics compost facility April 20, 2009 in Vacaville, California. Norcal Waste Systems is collecting food scraps ...

Food gets wasted at every point in the system. It happens on farms, at factories, in grocery stores and at restaurants. But as we reported in our food waste explainer, the biggest share of wasted food ...

Americans chuck a lot of food. The average household tosses $3,000 worth in the trash every year, a cost that’s nearly doubled since the last time the EPA ran its numbers. The planet-warming impact of ...

Every time I scrape leftover food into my compost bin, I think about the staggering 1.3 billion tons of food we waste globally each year. That’s enough to feed 3 billion people – nearly half the world ...

Tracking food waste can save you hundreds — maybe even thousands — of dollars a year. Here are some expert tips for how to eat what you buy and buy only what you will eat. Three-quarters of a red ...

The Purdue University College of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Economics has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and ...

CHICAGO -- More than one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten. Much of it ends up in landfills, where it generates tons of methane that hastens climate change. That's why ...