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Conceptualizing Channels of Food Waste Prevention

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The think tank ReFED has come up with 4 important pathways to ensuring farmers reduce the produce they waste.

1. Imperfect & Surplus Produce Channels

Surplus, off-grade, near-expiration, or imperfect produce that is packaged and distributed via alternative sales channels or directly to consumers.

2. Buyer Specification Expansion

Adjustment of purchasing specifications that allow for a greater variety of product grades into sales and recipes, while still ensuring that specs do not lead to in-house waste.

3. Gleaning

Collecting leftover product from fields after the initial commercial harvest that would be otherwise inefficient and uneconomical to harvest, often conducted by volunteers.

4. Partial Order Acceptance

Processes to reject at a higher level of granularity and limit rejections of product that meet specs.

The most relevant pathways to

The Farmlink Project⁠

are Gleaning and Imperfect & Surplus Produce Channels. Below are resources for avoiding food waste in those sectors

Imperfect & Surplus Produce Channels

Imperfect Produce

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supply@imperfectfoods.com⁠

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Gleaning

National Resources

Map—National Gleaning Project

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Search ReFED’s Database of Gleaning Organizations

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National Organizations:

National Young Farmers Coalition

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https://www.youngfarmers.org⁠

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info@youngfarmers.org⁠

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WWF No Food Left Behind Act

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http://nofoodleftbehind.farm⁠

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5 Holistic Approaches to Tackling On-Farm Food Loss (report)⁠

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A Greener World

AGW launched a national fundraiser,

Help Farmers Feed Hungry Families During the Pandemic⁠

. With 2,000 U.S.-based pasture-based farmers as part of its

Animal Welfare Approved⁠

certification program, the fundraiser is one way to help farmers redirect their unsold products to food pantries, senior meal programs, and homeless shelters within their communities.

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https://agreenerworld.org/resources/⁠

The Society of Saint Andrew

The Society of St. Andrew brings people together to harvest and share healthy food, reduce food waste, and build caring communities by offering nourishment to hungry neighbors.

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https://endhunger.org⁠

Food Forward

Our dedicated team members and volunteers—people just like you—recover fruits and vegetables that would have been wasted from backyard fruit trees, public orchards, farmers markets, and the downtown Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. We connect this abundance of nutritious food to people experiencing food insecurity, donating 100% of the produce we recover to hunger relief agencies across Southern California, and to tribal lands in Arizona and New Mexico.

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https://foodforward.org/food-recovery/what-is-gleaning/⁠

Agri-Cultura Network

A community driven model building New Mexico’s small farming economy through sustainable and regenerative food justice.

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https://www.agri-cultura.org⁠

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