Explore issues and learn about solutions.
Prevention
Explore policies that reduce the amount of surplus food that is grown, harvested, produced, or thrown away.
Recovery
Learn more about policies that encourage the donation of surplus food so that it can be redistributed individuals and families experiencing hunger.
Recycling
Dig into laws and policies that ensure that food scraps are put to beneficial uses, like feeding animals, compost, and energy production.
Comprehensive Strategies
Explore how governments can advance effective food loss and waste measures through coordinated, national strategies or commitments to addressing food waste across the supply chain.
Stay in touch with the latest.
Explore recent news press, and articles highlighting food loss and waste policy updates and developments.
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.