Research and Project Topics | Food Loss and Waste Collaborative

Consumer Behavior and Food Recovery

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

The Freedge

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.

Feminist perspectives on food waste and design

Sahoko Yui

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Measurement & Characterization

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

Coolrooms and Cool Transport for Small-Scale Farmers

Elizabeth Mitcham

End of Waste Project

Ned Spang

Land Application of Food Processing Waste Streams to Control Agricultural Pests

Chris Simmons

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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