Why is Food Wasted?
What are the magnitudes, distributions, drivers, and interactions of wasted food within regional and across multiscale food systems?
Data Collection and Analysis
- Integrating Multiscale Data on Regional Food Systems and Associated Infrastructures
- Architecture to track wasted food through collection, imaging, aggregation, upscaling
- Data from product streams and co-occurring resource and waste flows
- Data collection post-COVID 19 for resilience analysis
Multiscale Modeling and Metrics
- Integrated Models for Food System Sustainability and Associated Infrastructures
- Integration of optimization, I-O models, and CGEs through complementarity problems
- Integration of associated infrastructures such as energy and transportation within food system models
Qualitative Insights
- Generating Qualitative Insights and Integrating them into Metrics and Models
- Ethnographic studies in communities
- Insights from power analysis, environmental justice, and resilience capacity
- Quantifying data on metrics of sustainability, equity, and resilience
Why is Food Wasted?
What Should We Do About It?
How Does Our Process Work?