Aotearoa New Zealand’s Food Waste Reduction Ecosystem Map
The Food Waste Reduction Ecosystem Map visualises the organisations working to reduce food waste across Aotearoa New Zealand’s food system. The map highlights gaps, connections, and opportunities for collaboration. It is designed to support businesses, organisations, and communities in identifying relevant solution providers and to strengthen relationships across the existing ecosystem.
Vision: an Aotearoa New Zealand Food Reduction Waste Ecosystem that is working together towards a resilient food system that values food and has no food waste.
A few quick tips to help you explore the map smoothly:
- Zoom in and out using your mouse or the + / – buttons in the top right to adjust the level of detail
- Click and drag to move around the map
- Use the search bar to find specific organisations
- Select any organisation to learn more about their role and activities, and link to their website
- Apply one or more filters at the bottom to refine the ecosystem by the level of the food waste hierarchy
Who’s on the map
The Ecosystem includes organisations operating in Aotearoa that align with the vision of He taonga te kai – an Aotearoa where food is valued and not wasted and contribute to food waste reduction at at a national level in one of the following ways:
- Enabling system change through strategy and design, evidence-based research, capability building, behaviour change initiatives, funding mechanisms, or policy advocacy and implementation.
- Providing solutions across the food system that prevent, upcycle, redistribute, or recover resources from food waste.
Some organisations are not included on the ecosystem map because their mahi, while valuable, sits outside the map’s criteria or is too diverse and localised to capture consistently. We still recognise and appreciate their important contributions to reducing food waste across Aotearoa. Organisations not included in the map are:
- Individual food businesses taking action to reduce their own waste. While this mahi is vital, the map is focused on identifying solution providers rather than individual food industry participants.
- Localised or community-specific solution providers. To maintain a national-level view, the map is unable to capture all grassroots and regional initiatives.