Digital food sharing initiatives

Globally, food is wasted at field-level but also in supermarkets, restaurants, office canteens, private homes and even in gardens where unwanted fruit and vegetables go rotten. This solution focuses on initiatives fighting and preventing food waste by leveraging digital platforms such as social media, smartphone apps and websites. Many of these are volunteer-led initiatives and free of charge or associated to limited costs. Food sharing platforms allow individuals and businesses (e.g. retailers, producers, local shops) to connect and share surplus food to other platform users. Many different initiatives have emerged in recent years with different target groups e.g individuals sharing food amongst them or supermarkets sharing surplus food with civic organisations.