Policy insights for a world without food waste.

Explore Food Loss and Waste Policy Issues

Prevention

Prevention

Recovery

Recycling

Comprehensive Strategies

Highlighted Resources

The Start Here Toolkit – Atlas Policy Toolkit

Consumer Perceptions of Food Date Labels: 2025 National Survey

Can Food Waste Policies Promote Sustainability?: Relationships of Food Date Label Policies with Food Waste and Safety Outcomes

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About the Food Law & Policy Clinic

The Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School (FLPC) serves partner organizations, communities, and governments in the U.S. and globally by providing law and policy guidance on food systems issues. This website – The Food Loss and Waste Policy Hub – features research, findings, and reports from our Food Waste and Recovery work—one of the four focus areas at FLPC. Visit FLPC’s flagship website for more information about all areas of our work.

FLPC’s Four Focus Areas

Food Waste and Recovery

Food Access and Nutrition

Food System Justice

Climate and Sustainability