While some Australians go hungry, enough food to fill the MCG nine times over is thrown away by farmers and growers each year.

A bold idea proposed by Australia's top hunger relief charity could solve this, with tax relief touted as a potential solution to get food earmarked for the tip into people's pantries.

Foodbank Australia is recommending a national food donation tax incentive in its annual hunger report, release on Wednesday, with the issue proving stubborn despite cost-of-living measures being put in place.

"We do know that the tax incentive works, it works in the USA, it works in Germany," chief executive and former independent MP Kylea Tink told AAP.

"We want this government to seriously consider it in this term. We don't understand why they're not moving on it."

Foodbank co

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