Center for Food Conservation and Waste Reduction
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Center for Food Conservation and Waste Reduction
403 Mitch Daniels Blvd.
Krannert Bldg.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Email us: cfcwr@purdue.edu
CFCWR IN THE NEWS
An introduction to the Center for Food Conservation and Waste Reduction (CFCWR)
The Purdue University College of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Economics has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant will fund a research and Extension project titled “Designing Co-Created Solutions to Improve Nutrition Security, Health Equity, and Environmental Sustainability.”
Brenna Ellison, professor of agribusiness management and undergraduate program coordinator in the Department of Agricultural Economics, is the project’s principal investigator. The new funding will create the Purdue Center for Food Conservation and Waste Reduction, a vital research vehicle for Ellison and her longtime collaborator, Melissa Pflugh Prescott, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at Case Western Reserve University.
Ellison and Prescott have expertise in the interrelated topics of improving diet and health outcomes while also reducing food waste. Their main goal will be to accelerate meeting national food loss and waste reduction targets by engaging underrepresented young adults, private and public sectors, and households in improving nutrition security and health equity.
