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No Hunger & Malnutrition
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The project bridges the gap between surplus food and needy communities through standardized operations and technology platforms to feed the hungry, thereby reducing food waste and hunger and ensuring food security for all.
India is the second largest food producer in the World after China contributing to about 10.04% of the total World’s food production. But, India ranked 100th position among the 119 countries in the Global Hunger Index report 2017 with a score of 31.4 and placed in the high end of “Serious” hunger category. Around 15.2% of our people are undernourished and 38.7% of the under five children are stunted.According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), approximately one-third of all food produced in the world is lost or wasted. Food that is harvested but ultimately lost or wasted consumes about one-quarter of all water used by agriculture each year and requires cropland area the size of China.
When food surpluses occur, the best destination, which ensures the highest value use of edible food resources, is to redistribute these for human consumption. Food donation not only supports the fight against food poverty but can be an effective lever in reducing the amount of surplus food put to industrial uses or sent for waste treatment and ultimately to landfill. No food waste recovers edible food and food waste management organization recovering the surplus untouched food from weddings, parties and other events to feed the needy and hungry people. No Food Waste works with State Governments & Urban Local Bodies of Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh & Odisha, CSR partners and Volunteers to create local surplus food recovery chapters with the aid of technology sources such as website, mobile applications. No Food Waste is also affiliated to FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) and follows the regulations of Food Safety and Distribution for safe and efficient food recovery.
No Food Waste(NFW) working model is based on an innovative 3A objective model,
AUDITING:
Developing innovative methodologies and tools to figure out the amount of food being wasted at different sources
ANNATHANA:
Recovering untouched surplus food from various sources and feeding the needy
AWARENESS/ALTERNATIVE:
Creating awareness about “Food Waste” and providing alternative solutions such as composting, biogas preparation for wasted/spoiled food
As food waste is becoming a global concern, NFW is working in alignment with the United Nations (U.N) Sustainable Development Goals (MDG) of eliminating hunger and poverty.
The key innovation of No Food waste is using technology as a tool to engage more citizens and local social capital for the initiative.
No Food Waste facilitates a mobile application in which users can,
1. Share their surplus food with needy,
2. Conduct food waste auditing with simple and effective audit tools provided,
3. Geo-tag hunger and needy communities on the go with the Hunger Mapping tool
4. Mapped hunger spots across India is open sourced for all users to donate food or required resources and to come forward to combat hunger with unity. The Application is used by about 12000 volunteers across the country and Hunger Map has been developed for all the cities where we operate.
Apart from wastage of resources, food waste generates about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually. Till date around 4 lakh, needy people have been fed in this project which saves around 132 Tons of surplus from ending into dustbins and landfills. This, in turn, prevents around 250,800 kg of Co2 from being released into the environment.
No Food Waste has addressed the food waste in food businesses and major source areas and concentrated on reducing hunger in the needy communities. Around 4 Lakh people have been fed in 12 cities with edible surplus food recovered through the project. It improves the social responsibility among the people and creates the idea of sharing resources with needy. It also provides an opportunity for all the stakeholders of the community to collaborate for food security.
The food recovered in this project till date has saved around Rs.2 Crores of revenue which is been spent for preparing the food. It creates a micro level employment opportunity in the locality and supports needy communities to concentrate on their livelihood by assisting them with the basic of life, food.
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