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.
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