FareShare, a not-for-profit organisation that rescues surplus food to prepare healthy meals for Melbourne’s hungry and homeless, yesterday launched a new ‘calculator’ that can measure the environmental benefits of donating surplus food. Produced in conjunction with Sustainability Victoria and Hyder Consulting, the MS Excel ‘Food Recovery Environmental Benefits Calculator’ can estimate the savings in water, landfill, energy and greenhouse gas emissions of 40 food ingredients. “To... ...Read more »

When an affluent country like Australia needs to provide breakfast programmes in schools to ensure energy for children who otherwise would sit in class hungry, bells should be ringing throughout the food industry to prompt the question… “how great is the need for food assistance really?” Australian Food News visited the Victorian warehouse of Foodbank (Victorian Relief & Foodbank Limited) to better understand the scale of need for food relief amongst struggling Australians and... ...Read more »