Multiscale RECIPES
for Sustainable Food Systems

RECIPES: Resilient, Equitable, and Circular Innovations
with Partnership and Education Synergies

40% of Food

produced is never eaten resulting in lost resources and pollution, economic costs, and decreased food security.

Our Goal

is to create knowledge that transforms our wasteful system to promote sustainability, equity, and resilience.

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What’s New

Sustainable Recovery from Shocks

Using a system dynamics simulation model, the RECIPES Albany team examined how real-world food redistribution policies shape fresh produce rescue over time under a COVID-like shock scenario, including the role of network capacity and coordination.

February 15, 2026

Community-Centered Research: An Interview with Expert, Meg Burke

Communities often struggle to solve complex challenges in silos. A Community of Practice (CoP) creates spaces where practitioners can share knowledge, collaborate, and learn from each other’s successes and failures.

January 27, 2026

Convergent Futures: Take a look behind the scenes at our co-design process

Over the course of nine months, the MICA team led a co-design journey to help RECIPS reflect on who we are, what we’ve done so far, and what comes next as our grant comes to a close.

January 16, 2026

Driving Change: Volunteer Management & Engagement in Food Recovery Operations

Given the value of volunteers in food recovery logistics, we developed an integrated
choice and latent-variable modeling framework that jointly examines how different variables influence volunteer status.

December 5, 2025

Food-Fueled Undergraduate Food Systems Science Journal

We aim to publish works on food-related issues ranging from policy to food science, to personal narratives about the influence of food, nature, and agriculture.