Strategies
to Reduce Farm-level Food Waste: Food Banks’ Gleaning Programs
Miguel Gomez, Cornell University
Two concurrent social issues are food
insecurity and food waste. The practice of gleaning (collecting unharvested
crops left in the field) offers a mechanism for combining these problems to
create a synergistic solution. Food Banks can make substantial contributions
to reduce food waste and alleviate food insecurity by establishing effective
gleaning programs, under the appropriate policy framework.