ASU researchers tackle ways to combat food waste

With the help of nearly $1 million in combined grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, faculty will spend time crunching the data and looking into ways to better provide for today’s needs and ensure that future demands can be met.

Improving food access in rural communities

Lauren Chenarides, assistant professor at the Morrison School of Agribusiness, studies the impact of existing policy solutions and interventions designed to remedy market-deficient communities that lack access to healthy, affordable food options across the nation.

Farmworker vs. robot

Automation is the solution to labor shortages, the rising cost of food, and more according to Professor of Agribusiness Timothy Richards.

Food choices: Testing the consumer’s point of view

A promising research method helps manufacturers and policymakers identify what shoppers look at on product packaging and labels.

Romaine contamination is making other lettuces more expensive

People who want salad or to dress up other foods with it have to pay more as the supply of leafy greens goes down.

Has ‘bullying’ lost its punch? A better approach to discussing workplace harassment

What happens when terms that help us deal with difficult business challenges lose their meaning, but the issue itself is as urgent as ever, if not more so?

Effects of U.S. trade war could hit consumers' wallets

Associate Professor of Agribusiness Troy Schmitz answers questions about retaliation over tariffs affecting agricultural producers as deals are renegotiated.

ASU agribusiness researcher earns Elsevier Atlas Award

Economist Tim Richards, the Marvin and June Morrison Chair in Agribusiness in the Morrison School of Business, and his co-author won the prestigious Elsevier Atlas Award for their research paper on innovative markets for food waste.

Ban on trans fat takes effect in U.S., but global eradication could be tough

Assistant Professor of Agribusiness Lauren Chenarides says processors in emerging countries might find it hard to swallow World Health Organization proposition.

The food you buy really is shrinking

Your eyes aren't playing tricks on you at the grocery store — that box of Cap'N Crunch has gotten smaller. A study of breakfast cereals in the United States found which cereals have been downsized despite an increase in cost.