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See the latest news and updates from our programme and the businesses taking action on food waste.

- 27 August, 2025
New national research examining how businesses in New Zealand’s food sector perceive and manage food waste has been launched ...
- 24 July, 2025
A first-of-its-kind research project has revealed the key factors driving bread and bakery food waste in New Zealand. The research, ...
- 8 July, 2025
Kai Commitment, the not-for-profit organisation driving business-led action on food waste, has launched a new partnership programme, bringing together like-minded ...
- 9 June, 2025
An organisation leading national action on food waste is calling for food waste measurement and management to be included in ...
- 4 June, 2025
A national food waste reduction initiative is rescuing an extra 12,000 meals per day and helping prevent climate-warming methane emissions ...
- 15 August, 2024
A new project bringing together leading food businesses aims to uncover the root causes of the tens of millions of ...
- 27 June, 2024
The Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor (PMCSA), Dame Juliet Gerrard, has issued 27 recommendations to the government to reduce the ...
- 3 April, 2024
Food waste is in the spotlight again with the United Nations Environment Programme Food Waste Index Report finding globally over ...
- 12 December, 2023
One of New Zealand’s largest bakery producers has joined a voluntary agreement to reduce food waste. George Weston Foods New ...
- 2 November, 2022
40% of all food produced globally is wasted from farm to fork (2nd November, Auckland) New Zealand’s largest food businesses ...