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    Cornucopia Community Advocates
    Expands Food Recovery Program

    August 22, 20172 Comments
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    CCA is working with The Sustainable Economic Development Initiative and the Arizona Community Foundation – Yavapai to increase healthy food delivery to food-insecure persons and decrease food waste.

    Verde Valley AZ (August 22, 2017) – No one should go hungry; no food should go to waste.  To address this challenge, Cornucopia Community Advocates (CCA) and its partners, The Sustainable Economic Development Initiative and the Arizona Community Foundation – Yavapai, have expanded a pilot program to establish food transfer linkages between farmers, grocery stores and restaurants to supply additional food to local food assistance programs in the Verde Valley and the Quad Cities areas. These projects utilize spontaneous supplies of food such as orchard harvests, unexpected food shipments and food surpluses from grocery stores and restaurants.  “We seek to make these food transfer linkages sustainable and long-lasting,” said Cornucopia President/CEO Harvey Grady.

    “In America, 40% of food goes to waste largely because farmers, grocery stores and restaurants have not linked with local food assistance programs to transfer edible food to those who feed the hungry.  We are creating a national model that recognizes that feeding the hungry is a distribution problem and not an issue of food shortage, “said Eric Marcus, SEDI Executive Director.

    Two part-time Food Recovery Coordinators, one in the Quad Cities area and one in the Verde Valley, make personal contact with all potential food sources and food assistance programs to identify promising linkages between sources and programs.  The Coordinators facilitate a food recovery linkage agreement between one source and one food assistance program as the first step then, monitor that linkage to learn how well it works and suggest improvements.  These programs create collaboration between food sources and food assistance programs leveraging food recovery for feeding the hungry.

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    According to the USDA Economic Research Service, one-fourth (25.2 percent) of children in rural areas were considered poor in 2014.  “Children living in persistently poor rural areas tend to experience worse outcomes in terms of nutrition, activity and obesity,” said former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack. “Despite their critical role in our economy, too many Americans in rural areas are not sharing in our nation’s economic growth and, in turn, their children have also been disproportionately affected.”

    To contact the Food Recovery Coordinator in the Quad Cities, call 928. 592.7929, in the Verde Valley, call 928.592.3837

    2 Comments

    1. John Neville on August 28, 2017 9:40 am

      This is a great program and very much needed. Thanks for taking it on.

    2. Lin Ennis on August 28, 2017 11:52 am

      Please keep us posted on how this is working. Thank you for doing it.


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