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
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
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
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.
