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The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D. has announced the projects that will receive funding this year from his Department, under the Rural Innovation and Development Fund, for initiatives aimed at reducing food waste generated by food businesses, retailer/wholesalers, or suppliers in rural areas.

Minister Creed, while making the announcement of the successful projects with associated funding of almost €300,000, said

Ireland generates over one million tonnes of waste annually. We have committed to reduce the amount of food we waste in accordance with a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (12.3) which calls on all nations to halve food waste and reduce food loss by 2030.  These projects will help address this goal and we must continue to develop initiatives to help address this issue.

The Food Waste Reduction projects are funded from my Departments Rural Innovation and Development Fund and so they will also serve to address that fund’s overall objective of energising the rural economy by encouraging innovative job creation and sustainable enterprise development.