Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

Food waste is one of the most pressing challenges facing our economy, environment, and society. In the United States alone, nearly 38% of all food produced is wasted each year, amounting to 145 ...

Food waste has often been regarded as an inevitable by-product of today’s food systems, but tackling it is emerging as a critical lever for climate change mitigation, improved resource use and ...

Recycling food waste nationwide would have huge climate benefits, but a new study in the journal Nature Food found it could also pollute soil with microplastics if changes aren't made to food ...

Feedstock is another term for the organic material that is “fed” into the digestion process, such as food waste or manure. In 2014, EPA began building a dataset of names and locations of anaerobic ...