Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world faced a monumental challenge: a staggering 650 million people faced hunger. The global crises - climate change, Covid-19 and geopolitical conflict has only exacerbated this problem, pushing an additional 118 million people into hunger. We are now spurring a global food crisis with 44 million people in 38 countries are facing extreme hunger. And here in Aotearoa New Zealand we face a similar problem – maybe not as extreme but nevertheles

Reducing Food Loss and Waste – Fighting Poverty With the demand for food expected to grow by 60% by 2050, food security has become a global issue of the utmost importance. And yet one third of food is lost or wasted costing the global economy US$1 Trillion annually. This loss generates around 8% of global greenhouse emissions and wastes almost a quarter of all the water used in agriculture. And here in green, pure Aotearoa we annually waste over 20 million loaves of bread; 6.