Innovate to Alleviate:
15 Years of Advancing Food Banks
We’re celebrating 15 years of making hunger relief efforts more effective, efficient, and inclusive.
Explore the remarkable game-changers that GFN and member food banks have
introduced to address hunger and build resilient communities.
Innovate to Alleviate:
15 Years of Advancing Food Banks
We’re celebrating 15 years of making hunger relief efforts more effective, efficient, and inclusive.
Explore the remarkable game-changers that GFN and member food banks have introduced to address hunger and build resilient communities.
15 Years,
15 Innovations
15 Years, 15 Innovations
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Innovate to alleviate.
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Will expand its focus to include malnutrition and poverty, build a portfolio of high-quality NGO partners and integrate the Daily Feeding India Programme with schools
Food systems touch every part of our lives, from the food we eat to our personal health to our local economies. Food banks play a major role in building sustainable food systems.![]()
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“Through [GFN's] Knowledge Networks, I’ve met people who work in my field,” said Carol Mérida, manager of donations and new projects for Desarrollo en Movimiento, the newest GFN member food bank in Latin America, located in Guatemala. “The greatest value I see in the Knowledge Networks is the many innovative solutions that have come out of generating ideas with peers, and how these solutions can be adapted for different situations.”![]()
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Through dialogue with other food bank staff in the Product Sourcing Knowledge Network, Mérida learned a strategy to extend the shelf life of a product her food bank receives.![]()
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“In Mexico, they use machines to make tortillas with surplus corn flour,” Mérida said. “One of the communities we serve told us they use the green bananas we distribute to make tortillas—so we are looking to implement [Red de Bancos de Alimentos de México’s] strategy and make banana flour with some of the 30,000 kilos of green bananas that are donated to us each month. Since bananas can ripen quickly or go bad, it will be great to distribute a more shelf-stable product like banana flour in our food kits.”![]()
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📸 Left: Bananas are a staple item in the food kits distributed by Desarrollo en Movimiento (DEM). Right: A community member holds a package of banana flour. To reduce food waste, DEM is developing a way to process green bananas into flour that can be used to make tortillas. (Photo: Desarrollo en Movimiento)
Delighted to share @foodbanking’s Annual Report - an interactive stroll through 15 years of community-driven hunger alleviation efforts! Wondering why we emphasize locally led efforts? How #foodwaste fits in? How this ladders up to #zerohunger? Have a read! #Innovate2Alleviate
💥 It’s live! 💥 In our 2021 Annual Report, explore #15YearsOfGFN through 15 innovations from GFN and member food banks that have been game-changers in efforts to address hunger and are preparing our Network for the future.
Read the report: https://bit.ly/15YearsOfGFN
@GCNFoundation Thank you so much for sharing the incredible work of our Network members to #Innovate2Alleviate hunger in their communities!
Partnerships between food banks and farms...
♻️ Reduce farm food waste
🚜 Support local farms
🍎 Increase access to nutrient-rich produce
Check out @ABACOcol’s #AgriculturalRecovery program: https://bit.ly/2XYa4S9
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