Savoring surplus: effects of food rescue on recipients

Wolfson, Megan; Greeno, Catherine G.

doi:10.1080/19320248.2018.1512921

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“…Applying a mixed method design, this study examined food recovery and produce distribution barriers and facilitators at individual, organizational, and system levels, and the available opportunities for expanding food distribution efforts to better reach low-income households who are experiencing food insecurity. Emerging evidence supports the use of food recovery to address food insecurity (27,39). Several notable findings can be gleaned from this work.…”

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Food recovery and produce distribution as a system strategy for increasing access to healthy food among populations experiencing food insecurity: lessons for post-pandemic planning

Palimaru,

Caldwell,

Cohen

et al. 2023

Glob Health Promot

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Using data from an intercept survey of 428 adults who received free surplus produce at five distribution sites and qualitative data from 15 interviews with site personnel, we examined facilitators (e.g. community partnerships, coalition support) and challenges (e.g. limited refrigerated storage, lack of transportation infrastructure) to operating a food recovery and distribution program in Los Angeles County. Overall, this food system intervention appeared to fill an unmet need for recipients, nearly 80% of whom were food insecure and 60% visited a site several months/year or monthly. For many living in this county’s underserved communities, this effort was instrumental in increasing access to healthy food before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. To sustain/expand this program’s reach, local governments and food assistance programs should provide greater coordination and oversight, and invest more resources into this food recovery and distribution infrastructure.

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Food recovery and produce distribution as a system strategy for increasing access to healthy food among populations experiencing food insecurity: lessons for post-pandemic planning

Palimaru,

Caldwell,

Cohen

et al. 2023

Glob Health Promot

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“…From New York to Colorado, from San Francisco to Sydney, food rescue platforms are fighting against food waste and insecurity in over 100 cities around the world. Their operation has proved to be effective (Wolfson and Greeno 2018). These platforms match food donations to low-resource communities.…”

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Bandit Data-Driven Optimization for Crowdsourcing Food Rescue Platforms

Shi

Ghani

et al. 2022

AAAI

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Food waste and insecurity are two societal challenges that coexist in many parts of the world. A prominent force to combat these issues, food rescue platforms match food donations to organizations that serve underprivileged communities, and then rely on external volunteers to transport the food. Previous work has developed machine learning models for food rescue volunteer engagement. However, having long worked with domain practitioners to deploy AI tools to help with food rescues, we understand that there are four main pain points that keep such a machine learning model from being actually useful in practice: small data, data collected only under the default intervention, unmodeled objectives due to communication gap, and unforeseen consequences of the intervention. In this paper, we introduce bandit data-driven optimization which not only helps address these pain points in food rescue, but also is applicable to other nonprofit domains that share similar challenges. Bandit data-driven optimization combines the advantages of online bandit learning and offline predictive analytics in an integrated framework. We propose PROOF, a novel algorithm for this framework and formally prove that it has no-regret. We show that PROOF performs better than existing baseline on food rescue volunteer recommendation.

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Factors influencing consumer use of social supermarkets in the UK: A redistribution model providing low-cost surplus food

Berri

Toma

2023

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption

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Savoring surplus: effects of food rescue on recipients

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Food recovery and produce distribution as a system strategy for increasing access to healthy food among populations experiencing food insecurity: lessons for post-pandemic planning

Food recovery and produce distribution as a system strategy for increasing access to healthy food among populations experiencing food insecurity: lessons for post-pandemic planning

Bandit Data-Driven Optimization for Crowdsourcing Food Rescue Platforms

Factors influencing consumer use of social supermarkets in the UK: A redistribution model providing low-cost surplus food

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