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Oct 6, 2020
According to “The Impact of COVID-19 on Consumer Food Waste” published in the Applied Economics Perspectives & Policy’s special issue on COVID-19, researchers say in July 2020, more than a quarter of respondents had increased refrigerated storage capacity and more than 10 % had increased frozen storage capacity since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. An Increase in food storage provides a more immediate option for preserving food, but may so promote stockpiling that could lead to waste in the future.
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Sep 11, 2020
Dr. Ian Sheldon and Ben Brown, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Agricultural Risk Management, discuss COVID-19's Impact on Commodity Markets, International Trade and the WHO
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Sep 11, 2020
The U.S. trade policy, labor and immigration issues, agricultural commodity markets, and the food supply chain will be among the topics addressed at a panel discussion during the 59th annual Farm Science Review Sept. 22–24 at fsr.osu.edu.
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Sep 9, 2020
A new pilot study deepens understanding of behaviors surrounding consumption of leftovers in the U.S., suggesting that reducing meal sizes and making leftovers more appealing could help reduce food waste. Brian Roe of Ohio State University, Columbus, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on September 9, 2020.
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Sep 4, 2020
The idea to turn bagels into beer was born the same way many good ideas come about - over a beverage and conversation. Members of Ohio State’s Food Recovery Network (FRN) had met at a local pub to discuss what to do with large quantities of leftover bagels the student-run organization recovered daily from University Dining Services.
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Sep 4, 2020
Are the United States Department of Agriculture's forecasts rational? This is the question that AEDE’s Siddhartha Bora and Ani Katchova, together with Todd Kuethe, have answered in their recently published article in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE). Ani Katchova is the Farm Income Enhancement Chair and Siddhartha Bora is a Ph.D. student working with the Farm Income Enhancement team.
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Sep 2, 2020
The news is mixed about the rate of Ohioans out of work. The state’s unemployment rate has rebounded from late spring’s rates, and it’s below the national rate.
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Aug 27, 2020
It is estimated that a pound of food is wasted by every American, every day. The amount of food that ends up in the trash is driven not just by individual or household food choices but also by a system that leads consumers towards choices that result in food waste, states a new study released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Aug 20, 2020
When Margaret Jodlowski speaks with farmers and producers, she notices the curious smiles that break out on their faces when she divulges that she did not grow up on a farm but in the city of Chicago. She welcomes the question that always comes next: how in the heck did she end up working in the field of agriculture?
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Aug 19, 2020
Drs. Yongyang Cai and Sathya Gopalakrishnan discuss the complexity of climate mitigation, the social cost of carbon and if COVID-19 is enough of a disruption to be considered a tipping point.
