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‘No for Wasting Food’ initiative

The UAE Food Bank's ‘Food Rescue’ initiative strives to recycle unsuitable food for
human consumption, diverting it from landfills and transforming it into fertilizers. This will
be implemented in cooperation with the National Food Loss and Waste initiative
‘Neama’ and partnership with the private sector. The initiative aims to recycle 1.5 million

meals of surplus food and turn it into fertilizer that will be distributed to farmers in the
Hatta region.

Since its inception in 2017, the UAE Food Bank has successfully distributed meals to
over 35 million beneficiaries, both locally and globally. In the past year alone, its
initiatives and campaigns reached over 18 million and 617,000 beneficiaries worldwide,

implementing more than 105 awareness programmes with about 9,843 participants.

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