food drive

Definition: A feeding disorder of varying manifestations usually specific to infancy and early childhood. It generally involves food refusal and extreme faddiness in the presence of an adequate food supply, a reasonably competent caregiver, and the absence of organic disease. There may or may not be associated rumination (repeated regurgitation without nausea or gastrointestinal illness). | Rumination disorder of infancy

food collection apparatus

Oil for Food | Oil-for-Food Programme | OFFP [Abbr.]

food consumption | food intake

country food [ country-style food | countrystyle food ]

finger food

foraging behavior [ foraging behaviour ]

street food

Our focus was on the food distribution and collection business.

17. Welcomes the fact that, in its communication, the Commission addresses various specific waste challenges such as waste prevention, marine litter and food waste; points to the direct economic impact on businesses and consumers of food waste, owing to the costs of waste disposal and the economic losses caused by throwing away saleable or edible food (more than 100 million tonnes of food goes to waste in the EU every year); recalls that one euro spent on fighting food waste could prevent 250 kg of food, worth EUR 500, from being wasted; highlights the environmental and economic potential of a recirculation of nutrients between urban and rural areas, and of “closing the loop” between cities and the agricultural industry; urges the Commi ...[+++]ssion to address the issues of food waste and nutrient recirculation in the context of the CEP; calls on the Commission to introduce separate collection schemes for food and organic waste (including, where relevant, door-to-door collection), and to prioritise the composting of organic material;

In a week, I will join my constituents in participating in a food drive for food banks in the region, in particular those in Saint-Jérôme.

L. whereas Palestinian refugees remain a particularly vulnerable group in the crisis in Syria; whereas almost all of the 540 000 Palestinian refugees in Syria are in need of emergency assistance, while more than half of them have been displaced again within the country; whereas Palestinian refugees, who have no Syrian citizenship, do not have the same rights as Syrian refugees and are, in the vast majority of cases, unable to leave the country; whereas the situation of the 18 000 Palestinian refugees trapped in extremely difficult conditions in the Yarmouk refugee camp, which has been under siege since July 2013, is particularly alarming; whereas UNRWA and other international aid organisations have been denied access to deliver essentia ...[+++]l supplies to civilians in Yarmouk for months; whereas this collective punishment of the population is having a devastating effect, with mass suffering; whereas, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 50 people have died in the camp since September 2013 from hunger or lack of medical care; whereas the limited number of food parcels that were allowed into the camp by the Syrian authorities, in the run-up to the Geneva II Conference, were far from enough to meet people’s needs; whereas, in her statement of 17 January 2014, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, in this context, that ‘impeding humanitarian assistance to civilians in desperate need may amount to a war crime’;