Giving Compass' Take:

• Food Tank highlights FoodPrint, an online hub that houses resources for developing a sustainable lifestyle, and is a tool that consumers can use to learn about the impact that their food choices have on the surrounding environment and shared community.

• How can funders work to implement the information from this new tool? What can FoodPrint tell us about food waste issues in other countries? 

• Learn about this technology startup that's tackling industrial food waste. 

“Consumers making meaningful shopping choices have the opportunity to make change,” explains Dr. Urvashi Rangan to Food Tank. According to the International Food Information Council Foundation’s 12th Annual Food and Health Survey, 50 percent of Americans think it is important for their food to be produced in a sustainable way.

Dr. Rangan, Chief Science Advisor at GRACE Communications, believes the FoodPrint project can help in situations where “consumers hold many values when shopping for food but have difficulty making choices that meet their values.”

“Lack of understanding the challenges and meaningful solutions is a major barrier to making best choices,” says Dr. Rangan to Food Tank. That is why FoodPrint’s primary purpose is to “provide all levels of information that describe the challenges in the food system, the solutions to those challenges, and how people [can] change the marketplace from advocacy to making better shopping choices.”

Read the full article on calculating your foodprint by Hayly Hoch at Food Tank.