For most people, ‘food rescue’ is not an everyday term – but it should be. With 12 million tons of food going to waste every year in South Africa, more than enough to feed this country’s hungry millions, the non-profit SA Harvest is one organisation ...
, a digital trading platform created by Standard Bank that matches food producers who have excess fresh produce to food requests from registered charities.
While recognising that “charity is important”, Browde appreciates the unfortunate connotations of the “charity” concept, acknowledging what is sometimes “a great indignity” in charity. “We don’t want to have so many millions of people living with their hands out,” he says.Browde is also acutely aware that charity doesn’t solve the structural problems that make it necessary in the first place.
In addition, SA Harvest has done deals with retailers and with other partners to guarantee that they will buy whatever the freshly qualified agri-entrepreneurs’ new businesses produce.“It’s a small example of how we are moving ahead and how everybody has to,” Browde says. Though 8.5 million tons of food is a lot, not enough is being done in the food rescue space, Browde believes. The overall amount of food rescued in South Africa is “abysmally low… there is such a huge potential for improving the rescue of food waste.”
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