Reducing food loss and waste is one of the most powerful levers to cut methane emissions. ReFED’s research shows that scaling food recycling and diversion is one of the most immediate, cost-effective strategies to reduce methane today, while tackling loss within beef and dairy systems can unlock major long-term impact.

ReFED’s Catalytic Grant Fund is seeking bold solutions and initiatives in two high-impact areas:

• Advancing food recycling: Enhancing sorting, decontamination, processing, and access to create more effective and efficient systems.

• Reducing methane in the beef and dairy sectors: Cutting loss and waste by lowering animal mortality, improving supply chain efficiency to get more products to market, preventing food waste at the household level, and reducing enteric emissions through climate-smart feed additives derived from waste streams.