Dec 14, 2022
Today's podcast is part of a series on food waste. When farmers produce more of a product than people are willing to buy, or when the demand for a product falls unexpectedly, food is wasted. What role do agricultural policies and politics play in creating and perpetuating cycles of supply challenges? Our guest today is...
Dec 14, 2022
School meal programs provide children with needed meals, snacks, and even take home foods throughout the world. These programs have a tremendous impact on children's overall nutrition, physical, and emotional development, and their academic performance, as you can imagine. Much can be learned from a project that is...
Dec 7, 2022
Food packaging can make shopping a pretty difficult process. Packaging can be a blitz of marketing strategies, where fact and misdirection are hard to distinguish. Plainly put, food labels are often confusing for consumers. So what is the Food and Drug Administration doing about this? We're happy today to have Dr. Susan...
Nov 30, 2022
When you hear the words food waste do you think about forgotten leftovers? In the journey from farm to stores to the dinner table, some food is lost during the processing and transportation and at home some purchase food simply goes uneaten. How can transportation science help reduce food waste and loss and make the...
Nov 16, 2022
In September of 2022, the White House held the first conference focused on hunger, nutrition, and health, in 50 years. The convening served as the Biden-Harris administration's call-to-action to end hunger, and increase healthy eating, and the physical activity among Americans, by the year 2030. But how successful was...