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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

EATER

Independent restaurants can get help through utility energy audit and equipment rebate programs—if their state has them. Meg Wilcox is an environmental journalist covering food, agriculture, water, environmental health and justice, and sustainability. Unfortunately, he adds, “if you are a smaller restaurant. But I have to remember.

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Tips to Navigate a Perfect Storm That’s Threatening Our Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

Today’s digital solutions allow you to audit and evaluate your supply chain’s sustainability and resilience. Vertical farming is an agricultural process where crops are grown vertically, in controlled indoor environments, rather than in traditional, horizontal rows outside. Use tech tools to manage your supply chain.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The previous spike we saw in community supported agriculture and grocery has started to dip (down 54 percent and 26 percent, respectively), as people head back into restaurants and cook at home less. Check clean through periodic on-demand training, auditing and verification that procedures have been followed.

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Understanding the co-operative model in Kenya’s coffee sector

Perfect Daily Grind

These traded a number of agricultural commodities, including coffee. As of 2017, there were more than 22,800 registered co-ops in the country which traded a range of agricultural crops, although this number may have changed over the past five years. When Kenya became independent in 1963, there were around 1,000 registered co-ops.

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How I Got My Job: Launching Vertical Farming Innovations After a Career in Packaged Snack Foods

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Photo by David Cortes Stephanie Jack always knew she wanted to work in food, and her journey took her from Frito-Lay to the “smart produce” business Stephanie Jack’s parents met while working at Heinz — specifically, when her mother was auditing her father’s department. What would surprise people about your job?

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Why Zero-Waste Training is Essential for Your Restaurant Team

The Rail

Not using ingredients to their fullest may mean you’re over-ordering, which puts greater pressure on local agriculture. Waste audits: Train your staff on how to conduct effective waste audits. It affects the environment: Wastage — whether it’s food, utilities, or other resources — negatively affects the planet.

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How can social initiatives improve gender equity in coffee production?

Perfect Daily Grind

Furthermore, if women working in agriculture were given equal access to financial resources, as well as decision-making and leadership roles, it’s believed that global agricultural output could increase by up to 4% – which includes coffee production.