No Food Left Behind

Tipo de pratica Reuse for food

Nombre la actividad profesional No Food Left Behind

Nombre del agente principal AmpleHarvest.org, USA

Tipo de agente(s) ONG

Ubicación United States of America

Etapa de la puesta en práctica Cosecha

Año de puesta en práctica 2009

Actividades realizadas o en vías de realización This campaign enables people to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in their their community via the Internet. AmpleHarvest.org connects 40+ million Americans with excess food in their garden and local food pantries. Many Americans rely on the more than 33,500 food pantries (also called food shelves, food closets, food cupboards or food banks in some areas) across America to help feed their families. These food pantries, relying on donated and purchased foods, almost never have fresh produce and instead rely on canned or processed produce. At the same time, millions of home and community gardeners nationwide with an abundant harvest do not know that they can share their harvest - AmpleHarvest.org solves that for them by giving food pantries the opportunity to register themselves in a central nationwide directory so that gardeners and other donors can share their fresh produce.

Resultados y repercusiones Currently, 5,030 food pantries across all 50 states are registered to receive a sustainable and recurring supply of freshly harvested, locally grown food from area growers - for free. In August 2010 a survey of then registered food pantries indicated that more than 3 million pounds of freshly harvested locally grown produce had been donated to food pantries.