Millions of people across the globe face hunger while nearly a third of food is lost or wasted. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Food banking is key to the solution.
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Our
Community-Led Approach

Our mission is simple: We advance and unite food banks to nourish the world’s hungry.
Mobilizing food systems change
We provide the information, space, and connections necessary to ensure the world’s food banks have a voice in global conversations, moving us toward lasting food systems change.
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Food bank leaders from around the world join a panel at the Food Bank Leadership Institute in Mexico City. (Photo: The Global FoodBanking Network/Ken Jones Photography)
Advancing food banks
We ensure food banks have the resources they need to operate optimally, expand responsibly, and respond to unexpected shocks that come their way.
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In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, staff members from Kechara Soup Kitchen distribute food packages to community members facing hunger. The packages contains prepared hot meals, beverages, fruit, and baked goods. The food bank also provides basic medical services, and welfare aid to the homeless and urban poor populations. (Photo: The Global FoodBanking Network/Annice Lyn)

Food Banks Serve #MoreThanFood

Join us on a journey around the world and explore how food banks are an often-unseen solution to reducing food loss and waste, getting nutritious, fresh food to people facing hunger, and so much more.

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Our
Stories

Foodbank SA & NT Provides Food to Remote Australian Communities
A daunting 1,880 miles separate the capitals of Northern Territory and South Australia—but Foodbank SA & NT is doing whatever it takes to ensure people from north to south have access to good quality food.
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How Countries Can Develop National Strategies for Food Loss and Waste
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How Food Banks Embrace the Spirit of Ramadan
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Six Inspiring Examples of How Food Banks Support Women Around the World
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Our
Impact

32
Million People
accessed food through a GFN member food bank in 2022.
1.5
Billion kilograms of CO2e
were prevented by GFN members in 2022.
GFN’s time-tested approach to food banking has been essential to helping us build the model and better serve our communities.
Elijah Amoo Addo
Founder and Executive Director
Food for All Africa
51,000
Community Organizations
were supported by a GFN member in 2022.

Our Global Network of Food Banks

Find GFN members across six continents and more than 50 countries.
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The boundaries, names, and designations used on this map or other materials on this website does not imply official endorsement or opinion of The Global FoodBanking Network or its partners.

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