Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction Consortium

The Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction Consortium is a collaborative research effort to prevent food and nutrient loss and waste and promote global food security.

Generating Food Systems Solutions
The Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction Consortium is a collaborative research effort to prevent food and nutrient loss and waste and promote global food security.

Generating Food Systems Solutions

Program Contact

Grants Team
grants@foundationfar.org

Development Contact

Carmen Ruiz
cruiz@foundationfar.org

Why the Consortium is Needed

Food loss and waste is a global problem that negatively impacts the bottom line of businesses and farmers, wastes limited resources, contributes to food insecurity and damages the environment.

We launched this consortium in 2019 with a $2.78 million contribution, which is matched by consortium participants for a $5.56 million investment in pioneering food loss and waste research.

The consortium includes strategic public-private partnerships that bring together global thought leaders and experts with industry and other organizations. Together, participants address social, economic and environmental impacts from food loss and waste. The consortium works collaboratively to increase adoption of the YieldWise Initiative model, a project to reduce food loss in developing nations and food waste in developed markets.

The consortium also provides farmers across the globe with technology and strategies to use resources efficiently, allowing farmers to gain more value from their crops. These technologies and strategies stimulate local economic growth and improve access to affordable, healthy food.

In addition to developing strategies to reduce food waste and loss, the consortium builds the academic and entrepreneurial capacity of the next generation of scientists. The consortium pairs researchers and students with private and public sectors professionals for mentorship and training.

For more information, visit the Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction Consortium website.

Consortium Partners

The Consortium convenes diverse thought leaders from public, private and academic spheres who are changing the way we are preventing food loss and waste and ensuring food security.

The participants are Iowa State University, USA; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; The Rockefeller Foundation, USA; Stellenbosch University, South Africa; University of Maryland, USA; University of Nairobi, Kenya; University of São Paulo, Brazil; the Volcani Center, Israel; Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands; and Zamorano University, Honduras.

 

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The Latest

Insights

Our Insights highlight unique perspectives from across the food and agriculture community.

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Illuminating Pest Management with the Help of the Washington State Wine Commission

Alexa McDaniel

FFAR Fellow, Washington State University

National Nutrition Month: FFAR’s Bold Solutions Addressing Food Insecurity

Dr. Constance Gewa

Senior Program Director

Engineering Beneficial Bacteria to Improve Human Health

FFAR Fellow, Echo Pan

The Map of Food: Why We Need a World Atlas of What We Eat

Nancy Brown

Every Day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Dr. Kim Paul, Dr. Kristin Ruppel

Founder of the Piikani Lodge Health InstituteProfessor of Native American Studies in the College of Letters and Science and director of MSU’s Native Land Project

PIP is Pioneering Indoor Agriculture Collaborations

John Reich, Ph.D.

Scientific Program Director Bolstering Healthy Food Systems

Feedback Loops & Food Access

Gwendolyn Donley

2019-2022 FFAR Fellow

News

The latest news and updates from FFAR.

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FFAR Grant to Improve Sorghum & Strengthen Nutritional Security

Advancing Circular Bioeconomy with Biomass Feedstocks

Student Teams Combat Climate Change

FFAR & NWO Launch Greenhouses in Transition & Welcome Proposals

FFAR Accepting Applications for Harvest for Health Breakthrough Crop Challenge

FFAR Grant Unites Urban Agriculture Operations to Increase Food Security

Researchers Investigate the Promise of Food Procurement

Pairing Regenerative Farming and Solar Energy Production to Improve Urban Resilience

FFAR Announces Harvest for Health Prize Criteria

FFAR Grant Develops Premium Strawberry Flavors for Indoor Growing Environments

FFAR Program Develops Underutilized Crops

FFAR & Schmidt Futures Release Report to Advance a Circular U.S. Bioeconomy

Grant Aims to Reduce Food Waste

FFAR, NPB Seek to Improve Air Quality on Pig Farms

FFAR & WUR Launch Nature-Based Future Challenge

FFAR Grant Tackles Peanut Allergy

FFAR Grant Advances Equitable Food Access

FFAR Grant Addresses Food Waste Reduction Challenges

FFAR-Funded Periodic Table of Food Initiative to Standardize Food Analysis

FFAR & NPB Focus on Continuous Air Quality Improvement Efforts

Breakthroughs

Tools, technologies and strategies from the research we fund.

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Loyalty Shopper Card Intervention Creates Behavior Change

Breakthrough for Individually-targeted incentives, diet quality and health outcomes among adults

Increased Fiber, Same Great Taste

Breakthrough for Increasing Dietary Fiber in Wheat Crop

Connecting Growers & Markets

Breakthrough for FFAR Grant Develops Tools to Predict Consumer Demand, Reduce Food Waste