search our site     home > key topics > diet, consumption, & health   food loss, recovery, & gleaning Growing concern about hunger, resource conservation, and the environmental and economic costs associated with food waste, has raised public awareness about food loss. Current and ongoing ERS research on food loss, recovery, and gleaning includes such topics as estimating the amount of food loss in the United States, increasing food recovery from farmers' markets, and exploring distribution patterns for recovered food by Mid-Atlantic food banks and food rescue organizations. related briefing rooms - offer an indepth discussion synthesizing ERS research Food Security in the United States feature Estimating and Addressing America's Food Losses estimates food losses nationwide at the retail, consumer, and foodservice sectors and examined ways to prevent food losses, reduce food-related solid waste, and recover wholesome but unwanted food that would otherwise be discarded. web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov updated: November 15, 2000  Also at ERS... latest publications (all) • The Emergency Food Assistance System—Findings From the Client Survey: Executive Summary • Issues in Food Assistance—Private Provision of Food Aid: The Emergency Food Assistance System • The Emergency Food Assistance System—Findings From the Provider Survey, Volume I: Executive Summary latest data products (all) • Food Security Supplement: Survey of Program Dynamics 1998 Food Security Status File • Food Security Supplement: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 Food Security Status File • Food Security Supplement: Current Population Survey research emphases (all) • A Healthy, Well-Nourished Population resources • Contact an ERS Expert • Calendar of Releases services • Receive E-mail Updates • E-mail This Page • Translate This Page

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