this study has been a pilot study aiming at developing methodologies for studying food redistribution and conducting pilot studies to test the methodologies and get some preliminary results the study has documented a need to go deeper into the issue in a followingup study and to get a more comprehensive and complete picture of the activities going on in each country the organisations foresee an increased demand for free meals served and food bags given to lowincome clients in the future and this is likely to further increase the need for food donations