Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 2: Zero Hunger

Access to enough food should be a basic right. Unfortunately, this is not the reality for millions of people in Los Angeles County. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, up to 1.4 million people in Los Angeles County faced food insecurity. Food insecurity is inconsistent with access to cheap and nutritious food. Los Angeles has the highest percentage of food insecurity in the nation.

Replate’s patented technology connects organizations with surplus food to communities facing food insecurity. With a tap of a finger you can increase food access, reduce waste, decrease carbon emissions, and save water.

Fresh EBT is addressing food insecurity by making it easy and secure to check your food stamp balance on your phone. Free and available in English and Spanish.

Copia is building technology to make food insecurity and food waste things of the past. Our end-to-end service works in real-time to connect businesses with surplus food to those who need it right now, all while helping businesses understand and reduce their food waste and positively impacting their bottom line.

412 Food Rescue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending hunger by organizing volunteers to deliver surplus food to insecure communities instead of landfills. Since its creation in 2015, the organization has redistributed over three million pounds of food through the use of its mobile application, Food Rescue Hero. They are currently rolling out the app nationwide.

AmpleHarvest.org permanently ends hunger and the waste of locally grown fresh food. Working in 4,200 communities in all 50 states, it uses public awareness and technology to enable America's 62 million home/community gardeners to donate their surplus harvest to one of 8,000 food pantries for the rest of their gardening life. This provides freshly harvested food to food-insecure families.

Bondadosa makes nutritious food an option for everyone. Our delivery system brings fresh food to neighborhoods that need it, and our cost-offset model breaks down financial barriers. We deliver free meals to students in high-risk, low-income and food-insecure neighborhoods, fresh farm produce to single mothers in need of support, and reduce food waste by donating surplus food.

We are a Social Determinants of Health SMS text messaging platform that connects people experiencing food insecurity with nutritious meals from local restaurants and grocery stores. Bento uses our platform to connect marginalized and under-resourced people with nutritious, stigma-free meals from nearby restaurants and grocery stores.

Made for food banks by a food bank. With Fenly, food banks, food pantries, and other anti-hunger nonprofits are able to raise funds with the help of people like you! By donating, setting up a fundraiser, or creating a virtual food drive, you will be able to contribute to the important mission of making sure no one goes hungry in our communities.

The Interactive Food Buying Guide allows for users to easily search and navigate through the tool, compare food items, create a favorite foods list, access recipes, make a shopping list to assist in purchasing food, and determine the meal pattern contribution for food items.