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The Challenges of Establishing Food Donation System

Food donation system is a process usually led by food donation organizations that are collecting food from businesses and individuals or from the ones with excess of goods, storage it, distribute it to the food banks and finally redirect it towards people in community that have a deficit of particular goods. Food donation system is, therefore, a part of charitable activities usually organized by civil society organizations sometimes supported by state or local governments. Although arguments in favor of creating food donation system are very clear and acceptable to most, those included in an attempt to organize it are usually coping with many obstacles and resistance like the need to: lobby governments for change tax and other legislation connected to food donation, convince possible donators that donated food want create negative outcomes to them like black markets, contractions in demand etc. Other set of challenges is in creating efficient donation organization and logistics. As charity organizations are often connected in networks, form organizational point-of-view, food donation systems usually emerged in a hybrid organizational form somewhere between firm hierarchies and pure market organization of transactions. The creation of food donation system in Croatia is in its very beginnings of making a food waste management program and food donation organizations. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to address some organizational issues that stand in the way of the creation of sustainable food donation system. We analyzed best practice in European countries such as Italy and France who have set the effective laws to enhance food donation. Based on their experience and recommendations from organization theory, we aim to contribute to the present and the future efforts to create efficient and sustainable system that would fit the needs of the Republic of Croatia, and other CEE countries with similar social and institutional context.

Food donation organizations, food waste, food donation, hybrid organization structure

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