Financing the good fight Our premise – how to provide a billion meals to people in need – is wildly aspirational. But even if we only achieve a small proportion of what is suggested in this report, we can feed millions more people who don’t have access to affordable or nutritious food. It is worth repeating: we can have a huge impact, and often easily. The easy option operationally, and financially, is often to send unsaleable but edible food to become animal feed, or for use in anaerobic digestion. For organisations to be able to act at the scale required, we need to be onto a win-win, balancing making a positive impact with profitability. Here’s my suggestion. Again, let’s think about the resources available to us. If we work to reduce waste and reinvest some of those savings into producing more food at cost price using stranded labour, lines and other spare resources, I believe there’s a chance to do the right thing for the world, but also the right thing for each business.
Cross-industry collaboration Nobody has to solve this issue alone: it is through collaborating, sharing costs, resources and expertise that we have impact. The food and drink industry plays a pivotal role in feeding millions of people a year who don’t have access to affordable food. I’m proud of all the food recovered so far during our partnership with The Felix Project and FareShare, Alliance Food Sourcing and the Coronation Food Project. The Felix Project and FareShare already provide many millions of meals each year to people across the country. The question now is, how do we go even further? A sincere thank you to everyone who is involved in rescuing food and everyone who gets involved with ‘The Waste Equation’.” Tim Murray Partner, Newton
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