A $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be used to establish the first national academic research network on wasted food in the United States. Brian Roe, a professor of agricultural economics in Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will serve as a co-principal investigator. The five-year project, Multiscale RECIPES for Sustainable Food Systems, kicked off Oct. 1. RECIPES is short for Resilient, Equitable and Circular Innovations with Partnership and Education Synergies.

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