Iseult Ward

But up to 40% of food that's produced is wasted.

It's mad.

It is.

It's crazy.

Food waste is responsible for 8 to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The global aviation sector in comparison is 2%, around 2%.

So it's very significant.

But the food that goes to waste happens at each stage of the food supply chain and it happens for a variety of different reasons.

So at a farm level, you might have that the machinery that's used to harvest doesn't pick up everything and then you have food that's remaining in the field.

In that case, we have a solution with gleaning where people actually, and this is an ancient practice, people go out and by hand rescue.

Yeah, that's been happening for centuries, that people would go into the fields after the machinery and then hand rescued the food.

So just one example, but then you'll have the different specification requirements.

Yes.

Well, if you think it's not going to be able to pick everything, absolutely everything up just by the nature of machinery.

But it was written into French law that they legally had to allow peasants into the field after a harvest to let them pick what was on the ground.

I'm not sure if it's still in the law or if it's still happening I always thought that it didn't happen here because of trespassing laws you know so we're kind of a bit funny about that type of thing but we've since we've started organizing gleaning we've a lot of farms that are that participate and it's brilliant because you get volunteers out for the day and we do it with a lot of corporate partners as well and the feedback you know it's

If you're used to sitting at a desk all day, the opportunity to go out in a field, first of all, experience what's left in the field, like to see the food that's there and understand a bit more why at this very early stage in our supply chain, this amount of food is going to waste.

But then also to actually experience the labour and work that's involved in harvesting the food.

And AIB are one of our partners and we've had thousands of their staff go out and volunteer.

And one of my favourite quotes that I got back from one of the volunteers was that the next day she was sitting at her desk and she found it difficult to type because her fingers were stiff from picking carrots from the field all day.