Urban food waste interventions: Where to go next

Article by John Hopkins Centre for a Liveable Future calls for a giant leap to tackle food waste in cities. In September 2019 the centre held a workshop in Baltimore to seek solutions for urban food waste, requiring a better understanding of the connections between rural and urban systems. This article has many links to urban food waste initiatives and the conference report: Wasted Food and Sustainable Urban Systems: Prioritizing Research Needs gives plenty of workable solutions for how public and private engagements can reduce food loss. The report outlines six areas for knowledge generation:

• Tools and Typologies for Systems Modeling and Evaluation
• Understanding Intervention Spillovers Across the Supply Chain & the Food Waste Hierarchy
• The Potential for Leveraging Front-line Workers in Cities
• Preventing Consumer-level Waste of Food in Cities
• Equity
• Data on Wasted Food and Connected Systems