Research and Project Topics

Consumer Behavior and Food Recovery

FOGWaste uses multiple scales of interventions to promote responsible waste water management

Claire Napawan

California's nutrition education leaders meet in Sacramento to discuss ways to optimize food resources and reduce food waste

Wendi Gosliner

The Freedge

Ernst Oehninger

Freedge promotes the installation of community fridges [public refrigerators] that are used to share food and ideas at the neighborhood level. It provides resources to help future hosts through the process of installing a community fridge. This project is funded by The Green Initiative Fund.

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Measurement & Characterization

The water footprint of in-field potato losses

Ned Spang

Internet of Food

On-Farm Loss Quantification Study

Ned Spang

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Supply Chain Management

Drones helping to fight mites in strawberry, almond fields

Christian Nansen

DryCard™ indicates food dryness

Elizabeth Mitcham

Davis researchers testing new drying process to reduce food waste and energy use

Irwin Donis-Gonzalez

Ned Spang

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Novel Food Waste Recovery and Recycling Solutions

Biosolarization is a fumigation alternative that controls soil pests through passive solar heating and organic amendment-driven soil microbial activity. This project adapts a variety of fruit, vegetable, and tree nut processing waste streams for use as soil amendments in biosolarization. In addition to inactivating a broad spectrum of agricultural soil pests, biosolarization can help improve soil health and quality through the addition of organic matter and promotion of soil microbiota that enable nutrient cycling. This project seeks to maximize these secondary benefits to further promote grower adoption of biosolarization.

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