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
Integrating regional transportation and ecological factors into anaerobic digestion siting decisions
The RIT team introduced a multi-criteria geospatial model to assess the placement of future anaerobic digester systems relative to the distance over which AD feedstocks and products must be transported and ecological risks created by land-application of digestate using Western New York State as a case study.
April 3, 2026
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
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.
