Feeding America, Feeding Texas, Collaborative for Fresh Produce partner to fight food waste
To tackle hunger, the collaborative uses state-of-the-art technology and optimizes supply chain logistics to offer growers, shippers and wholesalers an outlet to address large-scale quantities of surplus produce.
Feeding America, Chicago; Feeding Texas, Austin, Texas; and the Collaborative for Fresh Produce, Richardson, Texas, partnered to address hunger and food waste in the Southwest and develop a regional model that can be scaled nationally.
Beginning June 14, Feeding America, through a grant to Feeding Texas, which launched the collaborative in 2018, will become the newest investor in the Collaborative for Fresh Produce. Feeding America’s investment will support the collaborative as it hones a sustainable model to partner with commercial farmers and food banks to efficiently collect and distribute donations of imperfect and surplus produce to hungry families in Texas and across the Southwest region.