The Global FoodBanking Network

Just a few reasons why we love it when food banks and local governments work together. ⤵️

Thanks to a partnership between the Rosario Food Bank and the city government:

-14 people have full-time jobs recovering fresh produce from one of the city’s biggest agricultural markets.

-Over eight years, the food bank has recovered more than 1 million kilograms of fresh produce from this one market alone.

In a world facing more emergencies and challenges than ever, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But hope is in motion in the very places where communities come together. 💛

Food banks and their partner organizations are often the first to feel the pressure when crises hit — but they're also the last to retreat.

Catch up on some of the biggest challenges that food banks are responding to right now: https://bit.ly/4uAFuHP

Behind every fresh meal a food bank delivers, there’s a lot happening behind the scenes.

In Guatemala, we connected Desarrollo en Movimiento with Emergent Cold to strengthen their warehouse and cold chain systems, from energy monitoring to insulation to safer storage racks.

This often unseen work adds up to more perishable food safely reaching more people.

When you walk into a grocery store, milk is cold, produce stays fresh and products stay safe to eat.

Behind the scenes is a cold chain system hard at work from farm to market to your table. 🧊

For food banks, building up these systems is critical to getting more food to more people, too. Give a thanks to the behind-the-scenes elements keeping all of this good food cool! 😎

Say "hi" to the newest team member at It Rains Food Bank of Ethiopia — their first refrigerated truck! 🚚❄️

Food bank trucks really are part of the team. They’re how fresh, nutritious food gets from farms to communities safely.

Thanks to a GFN grant, this truck has already moved thousands of kilograms of vegetables across Ethiopia.

And today, that means eggplant and cabbage sauté on the table at the Babul Kheyer center — just one of the meals served to more than 5,000 people each day in Addis Ababa.