Food waste: Fruit and vegetables saved from farms
An estimated 3.6m tonnes of food produced by farms each year ends up as surplus or waste, according to 2021 research by the environmental charity WRAP.
Watch how volunteer harvesters, otherwise known as gleaners, are helping to fight food waste straight from the source - the farms themselves.
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