No Food Waste

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India is the second largest food producer in the World after China contributing to about 10.04% of the total World’s food production. But, India ranked 100th position among the 119 countries in the Global Hunger Index report 2017 with a score of 31.4 and placed in the high end of “Serious” hunger category. Around 15.2% of our people are undernourished and 38.7% of the under-five children are stunted. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), approximately one-third of all food produced in the world is lost or wasted. Food that is harvested but ultimately lost or wasted consumes about one-quarter of all water used by agriculture each year and requires cropland area the size of China. Food waste generates about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually. When food surpluses occur, the best destination, which ensures the highest value use of edible food resources, is to redistribute these for human consumption. Food donation not only supports the fight against food poverty but can be an effective lever in reducing the amount of surplus food put to industrial uses or sent for waste treatment and ultimately to landfill. However, even though redistribution of food surplus is a growing phenomenon and food manufacturers and retailers are willing to donate their surplus to food banks and charities, the amount of food redistributed still represents a small fraction of the overall edible surplus food available in the India. No Food Waste is an edible food recovery and food waste management organization recovering the surplus untouched food from weddings, parties and other events to feed the needy and hungry people. The initiative was started in Coimbatore on October 16, 2014 on World Food Day with the focus area of reducing and managing food waste and with the vision of making the “World Hunger-Free”. Objectives : We are working based on an innovative 3A objective model, AUDITING - Developing innovative methodologies and tools to figure out the amount of food being wasted at different sources ANNATHANA - Recovering untouched surplus food from various sources and feeding the needy AWARENESS/ALTERNATIVE - Creating awareness about “Food Waste” and providing alternative solutions such as composting, biogas preparation for wasted/spoiled food As food waste is becoming a global concern, we are working in alignment with the United Nations (U.N) Sustainable Development Goals (MDG) of eliminating hunger and poverty. No Food Waste is currently operating in, • Tamilnadu - Coimbatore, Erode, Salem, Trichy, Tiruppur, Dharmapuri • Andhra Pradesh – Tadepalligudem, Tanuku and Eluru • Kerala - Trivandrum • Delhi NCR The key part of No Food waste is using technology as a tool to engage more citizens and local social capital for the initiative. "No Food Waste" Mobile Application platform provides the following options for users to get engaged in supporting the needy, With the application any user can, 1. Donate or share their edible surplus food to needy & hungry 2. Individuals, food businessess and institutions can audit their food waste with the simple and effective audit tools provided. 3. Geo-tag the places of needy communities such as slums, orphanages, shelter homes, old age homes, shelterless people areas with the Hunger mapping tool. 4. The mapped spots are published in the Hunger Map as an open source data for any user to support the needy in that respective community and to come forward and combat hunger with unity. The Application is used by about 12000 volunteers across the country and Hunger Map has been developed for all the cities where we operate. The mobile application is developed for the Android and iOs platform.

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