SecondBite is committed to making a positive difference to people by identifying sources of nutritious surplus fresh food and produce that would otherwise go to waste and facilitating its safe and timely distribution to agencies and people in need.
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In 2012, SecondBite rescued three million kg of fresh food that might have otherwise gone to waste.
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SecondBite Research
- Food Security Advisory Committee
Leah Galvin
Roseanne Murphy
Patrick Lawrence
Food Rescue. A Fresh Approach. Report 2-
the environmental impact of fresh rescued food on a sample of Victorian community meal programs and their clients. 2012 (SecondBite)
Food Rescue. A Fresh Approach. Report 1-
the social and nutritional impact of fresh rescued food on a sample of Victorian community meal programs and their clients. 2011 (SecondBite)
Prepared by SecondBite Research Officer R. Lindberg. May 2012
Prepared by SecondBite Research Officer R. Lindberg. May 2012
Community Food Programs in Victoria
2011 Collaborative Survey - A report on the food needed and infrastructure required
a report on the experiences of emergency food relief agencies in Melbourne and Hobart in 2009 (SecondBite)
SecondBite's Research, under the guidance of our Food Security Advisory Committee, contributes knowledge towards a food secure Australia - a place where everyone has a seat at the table.
Every day we measure our impact, track our processes and investigate how we can best serve our community food programs and people in need. In 2011 the Premier of Victoria launched SecondBite's first report in a research series 'Food Rescue. A Fresh Approach'. Since that time SecondBite's research interests have continued to grow and in 2012 our first research scholarship was awarded to enable a PhD candidate at Deakin University to explore food insecurity and poverty - this scholarship was an Australian first. Guest-lectures at the University of Melbourne, public health conferences and work through our research and community networks enables our research findings to be shared widely.
Our agenda for action-research continues to ensure our food rescue and education programs are evaluated and we continue to expand our knowledge of long-term preventative solutions to food insecurity.