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.
What’s New
Cultivating an Ethos of “Everyday Convergence”
While convergence is gaining popularity as the most integrated way to tackle such vexing challenges, researchers are not always clear how to operationalize convergence.
November 5, 2025
RECIPES Year 4 In Review
We’re celebrating 4 years of collaboration, innovation, and impact across the RECIPES Network! We collaborated on 45 projects, 25 peer-reviewed publications, and 19 conference presentations.
October 10, 2025
Meet Katie Malarkey – a student researching agricultural plastics
Katie Malarkey is a PhD student in Sustainability at the Rochester Institute of Technology, researching U.S. agricultural plastic usage. 5 years on this topic, she’s ready to share what she’s found. byproducts.
September 30, 2025
Ontologies for improving data interoperability for food loss and waste
Interoperable FLW ontologies will foster more comprehensive
data sharing and inform better solutions to reduce and recover excess food and valorize wasted food and food
byproducts.
September 8, 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.
Our Research
Wasted food occurs throughout the food system, so solutions require a systems perspective. Learn more about our research.
