Food Waste Challenge, an initiative to reduce food waste among consumers and throughout the food supply chain by 50 percent by 2030. Conference on Sustainable Development acknowledges food waste and food loss as important components of food insecurity in its Zero Hunger Challenge.ĭomestically, the USDA and the Environmental Protection Agency partnered last fall to launch the U.S. understand the economic implications of policies proposed to mitigate food waste for stakeholders along the supply chain for food and beverages.examine how consumers’ waste habits can be influenced by fresh food product technology and.

develop laboratory experiments to collect data describing how consumers respond to date labels for a range of packaged food products.assess the magnitude and frequency of food waste by consumers.Rickard’s research, which will run through February 2018, will occur in four phases: Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. “Since the largest share of food waste is associated with consumers, we’ll examine opportunities to reduce household food waste by better understanding consumer behavior,” said the grant’s principal investigator, Brad Rickard, the Ruth and William Morgan Associate Professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell’s Charles H. As a national security and sustainability concern, food waste is a vanished opportunity to feed the 17.5 million food insecure U.S. food is wasted, 21 percent by consumers and 10 percent by producers, according to USDA statistics. Nearly 31 percent – or 133 billion pounds – of all U.S. A Cornell economist has received a two-year, $500,000 grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to get consumers and food distributors to squander substantially less. Each year $160 billion worth of wasted food ends up in America’s landfills.

A Life To Waste by Andrew Lennon