Mitigate A Food Loss & Waste Reduction Course

Course Description

Food waste is a leading cause of climate change—and one of the most solvable. Mitigate equips professionals with the knowledge, insights, and strategies to reduce food loss and waste across the food system. Developed by TripleWin Advisory, the course draws on insights from groundbreaking pilot programs created for the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment and the U.S. Food Waste Pact. These initiatives, built in collaboration with leading manufacturers, retailers, and food service companies, provide a foundation of proven strategies that learners can apply in their own work.

Through compelling videos, expert interviews, case studies, and interactive tools, this self-paced course connects learners with real-world solutions from farms to households. You’ll explore examples from farms, manufacturing, distribution, grocery retail, food service, quick service restaurants, and hospitality settings. By the end of the course, you’ll be prepared to take meaningful action on food waste in both your professional and personal spheres.

Whether you work inside a company or support them from the outside, this course will help you identify opportunities to cut costs, unlock value from wasted resources, and accelerate sustainability progress. For companies in the food value chain, Mitigate supports operational goals while empowering employees and partners to contribute to measurable waste reduction.

Course access will be provided by the TripleWin team within 48 hours of purchase. Access to this course will be available for 1 year from the date of purchase. 

About Cultivate: Personal Sustainability for Professional Growth

Mitigate consists of 9 self-paced modules. Each module takes about 30-45 minutes to complete (4-7 hours total for the full course).

• Module 1: Introduction to Food Loss & Waste

• Module 2: Farms

• Module 3: Manufacturing & Distribution

• Module 4: Food Service

• Module 5: Quick Service Restaurants

• Module 6: Grocery Retail

• Module 7: Hospitality

• Module 8: Household

• Module 9: Action at Scale

​​Modules 2 through 7 are also available in the ISSP course directory as stand-alone courses. Each module is packaged together with Modules 1, 8 and 9, providing a foundation to food waste reduction and support for fighting waste in parts of the food value chain you can directly influence. See directory for details.

Global Impact 

This course supports UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3: "By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains."

What You’ll Learn

• Understand where and why food loss and waste happens across the entire value chain

• Learn proven, practical strategies to reduce waste in agriculture, manufacturing, retail, food service, and hospitality settings

• Explore innovative solutions and case studies from across the industry

• Discover how food waste links to climate change, resource efficiency, and circularity

• Identify opportunities for action in your own work and daily life

Who is the Course For?

• Sustainability professionals working in or with the food industry

• CSR and ESG leads focused on food systems or circularity

• Individuals in agriculture, logistics, retail, hospitality, or food service looking to deepen their impact

• Anyone wanting to build expertise in food systems sustainability and waste reduction

Certificate

Following the successful completion of the course, students will receive a Certificate of Completion, indicating knowledge of core sustainability concepts and best practices. 

Completing this course earns 2 CEU credits for SEA and SEP credential holders.

Refund policy

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*This course is being offered via a partnership with TripleWin Advisory. Please note that by purchasing this course you are consenting to ISSP sharing your name and email address with TripleWin Advisory in order for them to provide access to the course. Your information will not be used for any other purpose.