Nutritional and Food Security

Addressing vulnerabilities at all scales from the microbiome to food supply chains

Our researchers are taking a comprehensive approach to solutions that ensure the availability and access to safe, affordable, and healthy food. Their research addresses the impacts of a wide range of factors such as an unpredictable climate or socio-economic instability that can jeopardize reliable access to nutritious food.

Ensuring a Safe Food Supply

Improving Food Safety

Pulsed ultraviolet light can be a low-risk method to improve food safety.

Battling Antibiotic Resistance

Identifying markers of antibiotic resistance to make meat and milk products safer.

Improving Nutrition Through Food Choice

Reducing Sugar Intake

More intensely roasted cocoa beans can help to reduce sugar in chocolate for health-conscious consumers.

Encouraging Nutritious Choices

Understanding how children choose food can help guide parents in encouraging more nutritious choices.

Enhancing the capacity of local and regional food systems

Feeding more people

Strengthening local and regional food chains to enhance food security.

Increasing Healthy Options

Promoting more robust food environments to reduce poor health outcomes.

Reducing Food Waste

Analysis helps fine-tune food, agricultural, and nutritional programs to reduce food waste

Protecting Local Markets

Understanding factors influencing perceptions of climate change helps to advance productive dialogues

Combating Hidden Hunger

Agricultural diversification empowers women in Cambodia with “wild gardens”

Integrating modeling, data science, and visualization

Simulating Adaptive Responses

Machine learning helps prepare necessary adaptations to warming conditions for farmers and supply chains

Calculating Crop Losses

Examining the long-term impact of diseases on soybeans to provide accurate crop loss assessment

Identifying Stressors’ Impacts

Assessment details impact of pests and pathogens on the world’s major food crops

Office for Research and Graduate Education

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217 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600