Research and News
Here are some core resources about hunger, food waste, and food waste's impact on climate change:
- Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill, by NRDC, August 2017
- American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It), by Jonathan Bloom
- Food Wastage Footprint and Climate Change, United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, November 2015
- How Bad of a Greenhouse Gas is Methane?, Scientific American, December 2015.
- ReFED's Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20%
- Just Eat It: A Food Waste Movie
- John Oliver on Food Waste
- USDA Guidelines on Food Product Dating - "Use-By", "Best-By" and "Sell-By" Dates: What do they mean, and how long does food stay safe to use?
- The Cost of Being Californian: Self-Sufficiency Standards, Inisght Center for Community Economic Development, April 2018
- Income Inequality in the San Francisco Bay Area, by ExtraFood Consulting Economist Dr. Jon Haveman
- Poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area, by ExtraFood Consulting Economist Dr. Jon Haveman
- Fighting Hunger in San Francisco and Marin, Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
- Missing Meals in San Francisco and Marin, SF-Marin Food Bank, February 2017
- 10 Things You Need to Know About the Circular Economy - The Guardian
- Circular Economy System Diagram - Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Here are some recent articles and websites:
- The COVID-19 crisis has already left too many children hungry in America, by The Brookings Institution, May 2020
- Farms aren't tossing perfectly good produce. You are.
Washington Post — March 8, 2019 - Spoiler alert: How to read those "sell by" and "use by" labels on food
Washington Post — October 8, 2018 - The climate impact of the food in the back of your fridge
Washington Post — July 31, 2018 - Colleges are no match for American poverty
The Atlantic — May 30, 2018 - The staggering environmental footprint of all the food that we just throw in the trash
Washington Post — April 18, 2018 - The hidden crisis on college campuses: Many students don't have enough to eat
Washington Post — April 3, 2018 - How far do SNAP benefits fall short of covering the cost of a meal?
Urban Institute — February 22, 2018 - Study of student basic needs [42% of CSU students are food-insecure]
California State University — January 2018 - Dear global mayors: Solving food waste is money in the bank
GreenBiz — December 7, 2017 - Governor Brown signs Good Samaritan Food Donation Act
Californians Against Waste — October 10, 2017 - Legislature passes bills to cut food waste
Californians Against Waste — September 15, 2017 - Surplus stats: Food waste by the numbers
WasteDive.com — September 11, 2017 - What 'Sell By,' 'Best Before' and 'Use By' dates really mean
Forbes — June 30, 2017 - How much do you know about solving global warming?
New York Times — June 12, 2017 - Wasted food could feed a healthy diet to two-thirds of Americans
The New Food Economy — May 15, 2017 - 5 alarming statistics from the new food waste documentary narrated by Anthony Bourdain
Newsweek.com — May 5, 2017 - National survey shows high rates of hungry and homeless community college students
NPR.org — March 15, 2017 - Reading, writing, and hunger: More than 13 million kids in this country go to school hungry
Washington Post — March 9, 2017 - Reducing food waste is good for business: study
Reuters.com — March 7, 2017 - Commonwealth's food waste reduction initiative creates 900 jobs, $175M of economic activity
Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs — December 21, 2016 - Dates on food labels may actually start to make some sense
Huffington Post — December 21, 2016 - USDA revises guidance on date labeling to reduce food waste
USDA — December 14, 2016 - Schooling food waste: How schools can teach kids to value food
Food Tank — November 1, 2016 - Severity of household food insecurity is positively associated with mental disorders among children and adolescents in the U.S.
Journal of Nutrition — October 1, 2016 - Food hardship in America: Households with children especially hard hit
Food Research & Action Center — September 2016 - Eliminate laws that cause healthy food to go to waste
New York Times — September 21, 2016 - Simple steps by consumes can curb food waste
New York Times — September 21, 2016 - Skipping meals, joining gangs: How teens cope with food insecurity
NPR.org — September 15, 2016 - ASDA customers save money by reducing food waste
University of Leeds — July 19, 2016 - From field to fork: the six stages of wasting food
The Guardian — July 14, 2016 - Signs of a growing movement to reduce food loss and waste
World Resources Institute — May 23, 2016 - Are you confused by food expiration dates? You're not alone.
The Guardian — May 18, 2016 - The Fix for Tons of Wasted Food: Buy Less and Shop Smarter!
Reuters — April 8, 2016 - Our Ridiculously Massive Food Waste Is Driving Climate Change
HuffPost Green — April 7, 2016 - Food Surplus and Its Climate Burdens
Environmental Science & Technology — April 7, 2016 - Food waste is already a big problem -- but it could get even bigger
Grist — April 7, 2016 - The Enormous Carbon Footprint of Food That We Never Eat
Washington Post — March 28, 2016 - A Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20 Percent
ReFED — March 2016 - These 27 Solutions Could Help the U.S. Slash Food Waste
NPR.org — March 15, 2016 - 10 years to save 20B: WRAP unveils revamped Courtauld Commitment "to transform food industry"
Edie.net — March 15, 2016 - How to Save The Planet, Reduce Hunger, and Generate $100 Billion by Reducing Food Waste
EcoCentric — March 9, 2016 - Thou Shalt Not Toss Food: Enlisting Religious Groups To Fight Waste
NPR.org — January 18, 2016 - How Bad of a Greenhouse Gas is Methane?, Scientific American, December 2015.
- Chef Massimo Bottura on Why the Future of Food is in Our Trash
Wall Street Journal — December 8, 2015 - The Truth Behind the Sell-By Date
Wall Street Journal — December 7, 2015 - Electing to Ignore the Poorest of the Poor
New York Times — November 17, 2015 - Why Food Waste is an Urgent Global Problem
TriplePundit — October 21, 2015 - U.S. Food Industry Backs Government Plan to Aggressively Cut Food Waste
The Guardian — October 1, 2015 - It's Time to Get Serious About Food Waste, Feds Say
NPR.org — September 16, 2015 - 40% of Edible Food is Wasted. Here's How You Can Help.
Mode Media — September 11, 2015 - Food Waste Bill Given Second Reading
Resource — September 9, 2015 - MP Seeks to Introduce Food Waste Bill
Resource — September 4, 2015 - The Quest for Zero Waste: 6 Pointers to Reduce Trash and Increase Profits
SmartBlog on Food & Beverage — August 19, 2015 - Food Waste is a Massive Problem. Here's How You Can Fix It.
MSNBC — April 22, 2015 - Marin Voice; Too Many Lack Easy Access to Healthy Food
Marin Independent-Journal — April 6, 2015 - Marin Ranked Healthiest County in State for Sixth Year; But Economic Inequality a Pitfall
Marin Independent-Journal — March 25, 2015 - Marin's low-income residents lack easy access to healthy, affordable food.
Marin Independent-Journal — March 22, 2015 - Low-income Marin residents missing six meals a week.
Marin Independent-Journal — March 12, 2015 - Starve a landfill: Efficiency in the kitchen to reduce food waste
New York Times — March 3, 2015 - Food waste is becoming serious economic and environmental issue, report says
New York Times — February 25, 2015 - How Big is Carbon Footprint of Food Waste?
TheBeefSite — February 14, 2014 - Another major methane study shows action is needed now to reduce emissions
Environmental Defense Fund — February 13, 2014 - Feeding the needy isn’t a loophole: Opposing view
USA Today — February 2, 2014 - Feeding the needy isn’t a loophole: Opposing view
USA Today — February 2, 2014 - Food Insecurity and SNAP (Food Stamps) Participation in LGBT Communities
UCLA School of Law — February 2014 - Food stamp fraud and errors are at historic low, while need is high, USDA report shows
Cleveland.com — January 02, 2014 - Which American households struggle to put food on the table?
USDA.gov — January 02, 2014 - Affeldt leads efforts to strike out hunger
SFGiants.com — December 23, 2013 - Volunteers help tech feasts get to needy
SFGate — December 23, 2013 - Why Is a Senate Democrat Agreeing to Another $8 Billion in Food Stamp Cuts?
The Nation — December 6, 2013 - Measuring Food Waste
East Bay Express — December 04, 2013 - The Changing Face of Hunger in America & Mom Inventors Win
Katie Couric — November 27, 2013 - Food Waste Is Ripe for Profit
Time — November 25, 2013 - The Insanity of Our Food Policy
The New York Times — November 16, 2013 - How to feed your family from a food bank
CNN — November 13, 2013 - Meals Lost from SNAP Cuts Would Exceed Total Annual Food Bank Distribution
Feeding America - Working to Reduce Food Waste — When Kids Waste Less Than Their Parents
Edible Manhattan — November 13, 2013 - SNAP Benefits Slashed Overnight
Food Day — November 13, 2013 - ‘In the Old Days, You’d Smell the Milk’ — Doug Rauch Wants to Sell Outdated Food at Junk-Food Prices
The New York Times Magazine — November 8, 2013 - The Produce Isn’t Pretty, but It’s Edible
The New York Times — November 7, 2013 - In Defense of Food Stamps
WSJ.com — November 6, 2013 - Poverty in America Is Mainstream
- The New York Times — November 2, 2013
- Millions on food stamps facing benefits cuts
CBS MoneyWatch — November 3, 2013 - America’s new hunger crisis
MSNBC — October 30, 2013 - The Republicans’ War on the Poor — The GOP is pushing to decimate food-stamp programs, punishing the most vulnerable just out of sheer spite
Rolling Stone — October 24, 2013 - The Dating Game — How Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Food Waste in America
Natural Resources Defense Council — October 22, 2013 - UK Supermarkets Face Mounting Pressure to Cut Food Waste
The Guardian — October 21, 2013 - Your Scraps Add Up: Reducing Food Waste Can Save Money and Resources
National Resources Defense Council — March, 2013 - Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources
UN Food and Agriculture Organization — 2013 - Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill
National Resources Defense Council — August, 2012
