Catalyzed Capital to Accelerate Solutions Adoption

Many food waste solutions have the potential to make a scalable impact in creating a more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive food system, yet they continue to face financing barriers. To overcome the bottlenecks and help de-risk new innovations, ReFED works to catalyze the $14 billion — including $3 billion from catalytic sources — in public, private, and philanthropic capital needed each year to reach a 50% reduction in food waste over the next decade. In addition to generating $73 billion in annual net financial benefit — a five-to-one return — it would also cut greenhouse gas emissions, save water and cropland, create thousands of jobs, and recover the equivalent of billions of meals for those in need. In 2022, ReFED continued to drive this impact by empowering innovators and shepherding the capital needed to help scale solutions with a suite of best-in-class resources and services.