Grocery Market Reform Must Include Mandatory Food Rescue Partnerships
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Grocery Market Reform Must Include Mandatory Food Rescue Partnerships

Media Release, 30 March 2025 The Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance (AFRA) is calling on the Government to include mandatory food rescue partnerships in its plans to reform New Zealand’s grocery sector. In response to today’s announcement from Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis about potential structural separation in the supermarket sector, AFRA says now is the…

Media release: Kiwis Want Food Rescue Funded. Will the Government Listen?
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Media release: Kiwis Want Food Rescue Funded. Will the Government Listen?

Media release, 5 March 2025 Kiwis are disgusted by the amount of food going to waste in Aotearoa and they want the government to take action, including funding food rescue. That’s according to a new survey from Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance, which found 73% of New Zealanders are concerned about edible food ending up in…

Landfill or Lifeline? The Choice for Surplus Food in 2025 Should Be Obvious 
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Landfill or Lifeline? The Choice for Surplus Food in 2025 Should Be Obvious 

Would you rather the fresh and free-of-charge food pictured below nourishes those in need or goes to waste in landfill? It seems like a far too obvious question, doesn’t it? But maybe not. Because there is a danger that in 2025, freely available food like this will decay in landfill, rather than easing the devastating…

Government Must Act on Post-Pandemic Report—or Risk More of Our People Going Hungry 
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Government Must Act on Post-Pandemic Report—or Risk More of Our People Going Hungry 

Ever wondered what happens to bananas at your local supermarket when they get too many brown spots to sell, or tomatoes that are too soft around the edges? If your supermarket partners with a food rescue organisation, perfectly edible items like these—and other surplus stock—are collected and redistributed to places like food banks to ensure…

Introducing Our Board Co-Chairs
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Introducing Our Board Co-Chairs

We’re thrilled to introduce our dynamic new Board Co-Chairs, Tracey Watene, Head of Operations and Relationships at Fair Food NZ, and Simone Gibson, General Manager at Awhina Taupō Community Foodbank. They are both very familiar faces in the food rescue community and will be taking a collaborative approach to leadership, embodying our commitment to Te…

An increased demand for food within our elderly community
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An increased demand for food within our elderly community

Food Rescues and other charities all over Aotearoa are doing incredible work to meet the growing need for food support within our communities. Our Hawkes Bay-based member, Nourished for Nil, is seeing a growing demand for food parcels from many different demographics, including pensioners. Nourished for Nil’s Founder, Christina McBeth and our Interim GM Iain Lees-Galloway, spoke with Hawkes Bay Today about this confronting new trend.

Read the article here.