by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Apr 23, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
By Heather Latino, Clinical Instructor Every two years, hundreds of representatives from the food industry, regulatory agencies, and academia come together at a biennial meeting of the Conference for Food Protection to discuss emerging food safety issues and to...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Apr 3, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
By: Jason Woods, Global FoodBanking Network When it comes to food waste and climate change, Ecuador and Mexico are forging compelling paths toward solutions. In Mexico, a carbon tax and a new law addressing food waste and the right to food are strong first steps. In...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Apr 3, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
After measuring methane emission mitigation by food banks, new reports detail how Ecuador and Mexico can leverage them to reduce emissions and food insecurity. April 3, 2024 — The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and The Global FoodBanking...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Mar 26, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
[Boston, MA – March 26, 2025] — A new issue brief from the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and The Global FoodBanking Network emphasizes the urgent need for robust policy frameworks to enhance the integrity and effectiveness of voluntary...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Mar 24, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
By Balca Alaybek, Grace Mika, John A. Aitken, Rob Hartman, Julia Painter, Emily M. Broad Leib, Regan Plekenpol, Joseph S. Beckmann, Laura Leets, and Amber Sprenger. Originally published on MDPI on March 17, 2025. Food waste is a major contributor to climate change and...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Mar 20, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary, Students Speaking On...
By Bianca Hsieh, FLPC Student. Originally published on ReFED on March 19, 2025. With the continued national attention on reducing food loss and waste, ReFED and the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic are tracking and analyzing food waste...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Mar 5, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) has submitted comments to USDA FSIS and FDA, urging federal standardization of food date labels to reduce food waste, improve food recovery, and streamline industry practices. Concerns stem from the current...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 27, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
In a time of elevated food prices, more U.S. consumers are discarding edible food prematurely due to misperceptions of food date labels. Thursday, February 27, 2025 – U.S. consumers report discarding food near or past the label date even more often than they did...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 19, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Arlene Karidis, Freelance writer. Originally published in Waste360 on February 18, 2025 About $1 trillion per year worth of food is either wasted at the retail or consumer level or lost before reaching either of those destinations. Most of it gets landfilled....
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Feb 12, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
Pioneers in the Fight Against Food Waste Evaluates Promising Waste Deterrence Policies in South Korea, France, and Peru For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 12, 2025 – The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN),...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Jan 29, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, News
By Gilly Smith. Originally published on Food Planet Prize A new approach to redirect global food waste to feed its inhabitants could also mitigate some of the biggest challenges of climate change. The Global Food Donation Policy Atlas, known simply as The Atlas,...
by Adaobi Ezeokoli | Jan 24, 2025 | Food Law & Policy, Commentary
April Love joined the Food Law and Policy Clinic in January 2024 as a Clinical Instructor. Prior to joining FLPC, she served as the Policy Analyst for the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy Research Center at Alcorn State University (The Policy...
