Fed up with food waste? FoodCloud can help

Social enterprise FoodCloud wants to help us meet the UN target to cut food waste by half by 2030. Caroline Hennessy talks to the company's award-winning CEO Iseult Ward 

Iseult Ward, Co-CEO of FoodCloud. Picture Naoise Culhane

Food waste causes more greenhouse gas emissions than air travel. This is because one-third of the food produced for human consumption does not make it to our plates, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation. All that wasted food generates between 8% and 10% of the world's total human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In comparison, the global aviation industry produces 2-3% GHG.

It’s a sobering fact and one that the judges of the 2022 IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards may have had in mind when they gave the Sustainability Champion of the Year award to Iseult Ward, CEO and co-founder of social enterprise FoodCloud.