New research has compared whether food waste is reduced more by consumers who are driven by sustainability or those driven by nutrition and health. With somewhat unexpected findings, the study ...

Every day, the world throws away more than a billion meals while nearly 800 million people face hunger. This startling contradiction has become one of our most pressing global challenges, with new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

Food gets wasted at every point in the system. It happens on farms, at factories, in grocery stores and at restaurants. But as we reported in our food waste explainer, the biggest share of wasted food ...

Household food waste is an important contributor to global food loss and waste and greenhouse gas emissions, but not much is known about what types of food are wasted the most and by whom. Now, ...

Imagine going to the grocery store, buying three bags of groceries, going home, and tossing one of those bags directly in the trash. That’s essentially what's happening in the United States on a ...