Hy-Vee, West Des Moines, Iowa, launched Flashfood, what is said to be the first and only mobile app that partners with grocers to help reduce food waste by allowing shoppers to browse and purchase food items approaching their “best before” date at significantly reduced prices.

France's aggressive measures to tackle food waste, promote healthy lifestyles and adopt eco-farming techniques helped it rank the world’s most food sustainable country for the second year in a row, according to an index released by the Economist Intelligence Unit, UK, and the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation, Italy.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences, Wilmington, Md., broke ground on a new site at the Leiden Bio Science Park in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands.

Based on responses from more than 700 food industry leaders across Canada, The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste report identifies approximately 30 root causes of food loss and waste.

Advanta, Vienna, Va., outlines which countries are at the forefront of smart labeling.

Advances in packaging technology play a critical role in minimizing food waste.

France is the top high-income country in the 2018 Food Sustainability Index (FSI), which ranks 67 countries according to their food system sustainability.

About 94% of Americans admit to throwing food away at home, according to a new national survey by the American Dairy Association Mideast, Columbus, Ohio.

Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based marketplace for excess produce, closed an $8.5 million Series A round of financing led by Spark Capital, San Francisco.