Empower Your Workforce to Cut Food Waste and Drive Real Impact
In food value‑chain operations, every pound of food wasted is a lost resource. Educating employees on tangible reduction strategies is a critical step for real-world impact. Mitigate is built on proven pilots with real business results and designed to empower all employees from frontline staff to leadership with tangible strategies and sustainable mindsets.
Save Resources
Get insights into using resources more efficiently, strengthening your bottom line through reduced waste and improved operational efficiency.
Engage & Mobilize Employees
Engage your workforce to identify and implement food waste solutions. Leverage their passion and create shared purpose through measurable progress.
Unlock New Revenue
Discover ways to upcycle or use otherwise-wasted materials toward beneficial and valuable ends, turning waste into opportunity.
About Mitigate
Mitigate has 9 self-paced modules to choose from. Each sector module is packaged together with the introduction and household modules, providing a foundation for food waste reduction and support for fighting waste in parts of the food value chain you can directly influence. Each module takes about 15 minutes to complete.
Introduction to Food Loss & Waste
- Understand the definition, issues, scale, and impact of food loss and waste
- Identify the causes of food loss and waste across the whole value chain from farm to fork
- Learn practical strategies to reduce food loss and waste
Household
- Discover how food waste happens at home and its impacts
- Learn simple strategies for meal planning, food storage, and reducing waste in everyday life.
- Understand food labeling terms to make smarter choices.
Farms
- Where losses occur pre-harvest, during harvest, and post-harvest in developed and developing countries
- Explore the solutions for mitigating FLW at farms
- Interviews with farmers on upcycling & anaerobic digestion solutions
Manufacturing & Distribution
- Deep-dive into FLW during the transportation, warehousing, and final production phases
- Explore solutions, hear from subject matter experts, test your knowledge, and learn from inspiring case studies
- Discover the power of employee engagement
Food Service
- Explore where FLW occurs in food service
- Understand the challenges and opportunities to reduce waste across planning, preparation, and serving stages.
- Hear insights from food service industry experts
Quick Service Restaurants
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Spot and reduce waste across prep, service, and customer touchpoints using practical strategies tailored to fast-paced restaurant environments.
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Engage staff and customers in food waste reduction through teamwork, communication, and informed choices.
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Leverage digital tools and safe donation practices to prevent overproduction and divert surplus food responsibly.
Grocery Retail
- Understand how and where FLW occurs in the retail sector
- Learn about strategies and solutions in all departments
- Hear from experts on demand planning systems and consumer education programs
Hospitality
- Examine key areas where food waste occurs in hotel operations, from events to everyday dining
- Understand how better planning, inventory management, and staff training can minimize waste
- Explore approaches to surplus management
Action at Scale (for Managers)
- Identify opportunities to reduce food loss and waste in personal, professional, and community settings
- Understand the interconnected nature of the food system
- Discover resources, tools, and organizations to inspire and empower action
Course Description
Food waste is a leading cause of climate change and one of the most solvable challenges. 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. This course has been piloted by leading manufacturing and food service organizations and received excellent reviews. Read our case study from Meals on Wheels People
Through compelling videos, expert interviews, case studies, and interactive tools, this self-paced course connects learners with real-world solutions from farms to households. Choose from farms, manufacturing, distribution, grocery retail, food service, quick service restaurants, and hospitality modules. All sectors include the introduction and household module. 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.
- Available in English, Spanish, and French
- Use on phones, tablets, or laptops
Interactive, Engaging Tests, Activities and Videos in Every Module
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?
Frontline workers in all sectors of the food supply chain
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
Bring Food Waste Reduction Training to Your Team
Access our 3-module, sector-specific online course for just $200 per user.
Volume discounts are available for larger teams, and we offer customized solutions upon request.
Our course is securely hosted on an external platform—no installation required and no personal data stored. Need to integrate the training into your internal learning systems? We’re happy to support SCORM or custom deployment options. Just reach out to discuss your needs.