How the change works
- 01 / Public decision
Rules and agreements
- 02 / Physical change
Organized prevention and donation
- 03 / Possible outcome
Less suitable food discarded
Preventing excess and redistributing suitable food are two complementary activities, which require logistics and responsibility.
Research and local documents ↓What the evidence tells us
The French evaluation of the waste law reviews donation and implementation agreements. Donations were already growing before 2016: the law is part of a larger transformation.
Putting the choices into practice
Stocks
The challengeUnobserved excesses
The responsePrevention
Donation
The challengeUnplanned collection
The responseLogistics and quality
Indicator
The challengeAll the weight as a success
The responsePrevention, donations and waste
The diagram compares choices and conditions for putting them into practice. Measured outcomes and their limits are discussed in the evidence.
Research and local documents ↓Conditions and limits
Donating is not the same as preventing the production of excess. Quality, cold chain and capacity of associations matter as much as the weight collected.
Other possible benefits
Food support with quality and dignity for those who receive it.
Research and local documents
- Local document and reported findingFrench Ministry of Agriculture/EY · Evaluation of the Food Waste Law, 2019 ↗
Institutional documentation of the program, territory or rules mentioned.
