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Columbus, OH – Faculty, staff, student and alumni from the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics were recognized for their outstanding contributions with awards received at the 2025 College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Awards and State of the College.
The campaign is part of a larger $2.5 million USDA-funded initiative that will test different food waste reduction strategies in three U.S. cities.
By: Tracy Turner, Ohio State News Contributor
The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) has partnered with the City of Columbus to pilot a consumer-focused food waste reduction campaign, with Columbus serving as the first test site for the initiative.
Ohio State University was selected to lead a $2.5 million U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded effort to conduct and evaluate a pilot consumer campaign to test educational messages and materials designed to meaningfully reduce the amount of food that is wasted in U.S. household.
AEDE is proud to share that Professor Brian Roe has been elected to serve a term as President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Brian is the Fred N. VanBuren Professor of Farm Management, was chosen as an AAEA Fellow, served as an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and leads major research and policy initiatives on sustainable food systems.
The Farm Income Enhancement Program hosted a visit by the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation to AEDE to discuss research, outreach, and student engagement opportunities on February 14, 2024. Evan Callicoat, Leah Curtis, Whittney Bowers, and Brad Bales from the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation met with AEDE faculty and students with the goal of increasing engagement and collaboration. Evan Callicoat is an OSU alum who graduated from our Agribusiness and Applied Economics Program and is now a Director of State Policy at the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
Brian Roe was recently quoted in Alexandra Frost's recent article in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "The Great Underappreciated Driver of Climate Change."
AEDE's food waste expert Brian Roe is featured discussing a different way of reusing our food waste in "Can mailing your kitchen scraps to this startup tackle climate change?" Come learn with us the new ideas to impact our landfills filling up.
Come listen to our in house food waste expert Brian Roe discuss the problem with pizza boxes and food expiration dates on The Colin McEnroe Show. Listen in to hear from Dr. Roe and other experts break down their thoughts.
Professor and our resident food expert Brian Roe, will be on All Sides with Ann Fisher on WOSU Public Media the morning of 1/11/2023. He'll be joined by Joe Lombardi, Executive Director, Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio to discuss the issue of food waste. Tune in below!
Food waste expert and Professor Brain Roe was recently featured in The New York Times discussing developments in food waste research and a campaign to combat it.
Food waste expert and Professor Brian Roe shared his thoughts on paths forward for reducing consumer food waste. Read more about how he sees this paths moving by reading the article below.
How much food would it take to fill Ohio Stadium? The answer is pretty overwhelming, considering that is how much food is going to waste. With Ohio Extension today, we learn how much food is really going to waste and how you can improve on that number while shopping in your grocery stores.
Individualized coaching coupled with an app for tracking could help families greatly reduce some types of food waste, in turn helping combat climate change.
That’s a finding from a recent study co-led by Brian Roe, holder of the Fred N. VanBuren Professorship in Farm Management at The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).
Professor Brian Roe has been selected as a 2022 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Fellow, the association’s most prestigious honor. Fellows are selected based on their continuous contribution to the advancement of agricultural or applied economics through research, outreach, teaching, extension, administration and additional contributions.
Brian Roe speaks to BrownField Ag News for America about his study on the selling of ugly foods.
Explaining the value of misshapen vegetables – that they are as healthful as their picture-perfect counterparts and buying them helps reduce food waste – could help improve sales of “ugly” produce, new research suggests.
The Ohio State University Food Waste Collaborative expects around 300 million pounds of waste to go to our landfills this holiday.