Wasted Food Research Network

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Join Norbert Wilson, Martin Smith, Frank Asche, and Dave Love in an insightful episode delving into the challenges and advancements in reducing aquatic foods waste in the U.S., the largest importer of such products. The discourse highlights surprising findings on food waste reduction, and the complexities along different points of the seafood supply chain. Discover how research and innovative practices can lead to more sustainable consumption behaviors and address climate resilience in food systems. This episode is co-hosted by environmental economist, Martin Smith at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. Podcast and transcript - https://buff.ly/4ev9pc8 #frankasche #davelove #DukeWFPC #seafood #seafoodwaste #seafoodproduction #seafoodcoldchain #seafoodtransportation #seafoodloss #seafoodconsumerpreferences

How might?unlocking the expertise, creativity, and motivation of supermarket employees transform food donation? How can worker-engaged approaches further benefit retailers and employees? To address these questions, RECIPES researchers from?Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,?Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, &?Maryland Institute College of Art Center for Creative Impact (formerly the Center for Social Design)?convened a cohort of 10 frontline employees from four Albertsons Companies’ grocery retail stores in the Mid-Atlantic area (known as "Fresh Rescue Champions"?or "Champions")?to co-design a set of strategies to improve the food donation?program. The project is rooted in the idea that when given the opportunity to think closely about needs, frontline workers can utilize their lived experience and expertise to develop strategies?that both differ and complement those developed by others. Read the full report here:

The RECIPES Wasted Food Research Network is sponsoring collaborative research opportunities for early-career faculty and researchers (within 5 years of receiving a Ph.D. at submission deadline) from all domains and disciplines actively enrolled in, or formally affiliated with, a US-based institution. Fellows can advance their research agendas, professional development in their disciplines, and leadership at their home institutions through collaborative projects and activities, including grant submissions, peer-reviewed publications, policy creation, course development, and more! Learn more and apply by October 25th! https://lnkd.in/g8_D2Bff

Congratulations to RECIPES Fellow & AU professorial lecturer?Kristine Beran, Ph.D. and AU Center for Teaching, Research, & Learning Specialist?Hannah Jardine?for winning the 2024 American University Staff and Faculty Collaboration Award for their development of the undergraduate academic course “Food for Thought: Why Waste?”!

I recently contributed to the Wasted Food Research Network’s second Annual Meeting earlier this week, and it was such a reinvigorating experience that continues to catalyze my passion for research, collaboration, and sustainability. I felt so supported being in the presence of countless academics, experts, and change-makers from diverse disciplines to share our progress and “braintrust” how to ensure equity in convergent solutions on a complex problem like wasted food. Proud of my team for presenting our current project on “Integration of Wasted Food Data in Food Systems Models” and capturing excellent input from meeting participants to enhance our data visualization and modeling work as we aim to submit to food-related / sustainability publications in the near future. There may be an open-source solution in the works… Also delighted to help facilitate this year’s “Power Hour: Courageous Conversations & Having a Disruptive Mindset” with the unforgettable Dr. Monica Cox, Winifred Opoku, Ran Li, Margarita Cozzan, MSH, RDN, and Peter Locher. We’ve done incredible work since receiving National Science Foundation (NSF)‘s grant to tackle wasted food reduction, and I look forward to all we’ll achieve together in the next few years. ???????????????? #wastedfood #convergence #sustainability #foodsystems #nsffunded

I had a wonderful visit with Purdue University's Dept of Environmental and Ecological Engineering last week. Thanks John Sutherland, John Mulrow and Hua Cai for inviting me! In a graduate research seminar, I shared the convergence research approaches that we use in the Wasted Food Research Network #recipes, emphasizing our partnerships with diverse government, community and corporate actors, and facilitating productive dialogue across these groups around #wastedfood prevention and management. With the lovely undergraduates (pictured here), we explored how they as engineers might collaborate with design, management and social science professionals to address the complex societal challenges that we face.

A team at UAlbany SPH has teamed up with RECIPES, the first national academic research network on wasted food in the U.S., to help make the food system sustainable, equitable, and resilient. Read more in the UAlbany SPH Magazine (p. 47): https://buff.ly/48wDpBA