Agricultural
Recovery Hub

GFN is helping food banks start, scale and improve their efforts to recover fresh produce from farms.

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Recovering 1 Billion Kilograms of Healthy Food by 2030

About 13% of all food in the world is lost postharvest, meaning millions of tons of nutritious farm produce like fruits, vegetables and pulses never makes it to retailers or consumers — and lost income for farmers, many of whom face food insecurity themselves.

GFN’s Agricultural Recovery Hub equips food banks with training, resources and funding to recover more on-farm and postharvest surplus, with a focus on emerging and developing markets.

Our goal: expand recovery tenfold by 2030 — from 135 million to 1 billion kilograms — so more people can access healthy foods.

Preventing just half of all global food losses and redirecting for hunger relief could feed more than 1 billion more people.

Food and Agricultural Organization

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Agricultural Recovery:
A Proven Approach

The evidence is clear: agricultural recovery is one of the fastest, most effective ways to get healthy food to more people and reduce food loss.

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  • As of 2024, food banks have more than doubled food recovery from the agricultural sector in the last five years.
  • Between 2022-2023, GFN supported the launch of expansion of 10 agricultural recovery projects, especially in regions impacted by the cost-of-living crisis. Within 15 months, these food banks more than doubled the amount of nutritious food recovered and served nearly 10 million additional people.
  • In 2023, Banco de Alimentos Quênia collected over 635,000 kilograms of food, of which more than 89% was from the agriculture sector. Through these activities, the food bank has more than triple its reach, moving from 26,000 to 66,000 people in just 4 years.
  • In 2024, Banco de Alimentos Argentina, a network of 20 food banks, increased distribution 37% to meet higher demand. Much of the growth was driven by agricultural recovery — the network more than tripled fresh fruit and vegetable recovery to 6.6 million kilograms in 2024.
  • In 2024, Chove Banco Alimentar da Etiópia launched its agricultural recovery program, bringing in 60,000 kilograms of fresh fruits and vegetables, driving distribution up by 60% year-on-year. Now working with large commercial farms, the food bank has access to an abundance of nutritious food, meaning that 99% of the food they distribute to people is considered nutritious, the highest such figure in the network.

Agricultural Recovery Case Studies

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How Agricultural Recovery Programs Support Farmers & Schools

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How an Ethiopian Food Bank Feeds Communities with Surplus

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Can you help us nourish people and the planet?

With your help, we can scale this innovative and tested solution to reduce hunger and food waste and support GFN’s goal of nourishing people and the planet together.

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"Agricultural recovery has tremendously improved the number of kilograms we were able to secure, and the number of people we were able to reach.”

John Gathungu, Food Banking Kenya CEO