New @ FSL
Launching a new project funded by USDA AMS: "Creating High Value Market Opportunities for California’s Small- and Mid-Scale Meat Producers"
Learn more: Watch the overview video
Participate: If you are interested in new regional market channels for meat and meat products in California, please fill out the appropriate survey below:
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Survey for meat/livestock producers
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Survey for slaughter/meat processors
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Survey for buyers/meat purchasers
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Watch a recent KnowFOOD live episode
- May 19: KnowFOOD-WASTED, featuring Dana Gunders, Executive Director, ReFED, Brian Roe, Professor & Director, Food Waste Collaborative, Ohio State University, Edward Spang, Associate Professor & Lead, Food Loss and Waste Collaborative, UC Davis;
KnowFOOD hosts: Matthew Lange, Food Informatician and CEO of IC-FOODS, Courtney Riggle, Researcher with Food Systems Lab at UC Davis, and Co-founder of IC-FOODS
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April 21: KnowFOOD-KnowSENSE (Part 2), featuring Josh Silverman, CEO of Aromyx, Riccardo Accolla, Head of Food Science and Sustainability at ripe.io; KnowFOOD hosts: Courtney Riggle, Researcher with Food Systems Lab at UC Davis, and Co-founder of IC-FOODS, Robert Danhi, Chef; Chief Innovation Officer at Flavor360°
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March 17: KnowFOOD-KnowGROW, featuring Prof. Graham King, Executive Director of DivSEEK International; Professor of Crop Genomics, Southern Cross University, Australia, Dr. Liliana Andres Hernandez, Postdoctoral Researcher, Southern Cross University, Australia; KnowFOOD co-hosts: Matthew Lange, Food informatician and President/Co-founder of IC-FOODS, Courtney Riggle, Researcher with Food Systems Lab at UC Davis, and Co-founder of IC-FOODS
JUST PUBLISHED:
A malleable workflow for identifying the issues and indicators that define and measure sustainability in food systems (August 2022)
PRE-PRINT: The Great Intergenerational Robbery: A Call for Concerted Action Against Environmental Crises (Annual Review of Environment and Resources/Volume publication date October 2022)
Design and Implementation of a Workshop for Evaluation of the Role of Power in Shaping and Solving Challenges in a Smart Foodshed (February 2022)
An objective-based prioritization approach to support trophic complexity through ecological restoration species mixes (February 2022)
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems (January 2022)
FSL WHITE PAPER: "A New Era for Meat Processing in California?"
NOW ACCEPTING MANUSCRIPTS:
"Sustainability" special collection on "Smart and Connected Regional Food Systems", co-edited by Tom Tomich and Casey Hoy
Collection publications, to date:
"PestOn: An Ontology to Make Pesticides Information Easily Accessible and Interoperable" (May 2022)
~Accepting manuscript submissions for publication throughout 2022~
FOOD SYSTEMS LAB
The Food Systems Lab (FSL) , directed by Dr. Thomas P. Tomich and housed in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, has grown from our group's roots in sustainable sourcing and regional landscape assessment into a program on developing and improving the information management aspects of food system sustainability, in addition to continuing our core research areas. The primary focus of this cross-cutting informatics work is to improve how sustainability can be defined, measured, and operationalized by improving information management and connectivity among complex webs of challenges, data, and actors.
Our work has four focus areas:
- Food supply chains
- Working landscapes
- Data curation, analytics, and visualization
- Community engagement and policy analysis.