Our project on food waste and management is a group project completed for an introductory digital humanities course at UCLA during Fall 2022, under the direction of Dr. Ashley Sanders and Grace Skalinder. Students were tasked to use methodologies to analyze a publicly accessible database of their choosing and critically construct a data-driven humanitarian narrative.
This project aims to analyze the humanitarian effect of food waste in the United States using a dataset from ReFED-Food Waste Monitor database. The humanistic perspective is crucial to our research as millions of Americans across the United States are impacted by the food insecurity every year. By analyzing the effect of food waste within different regions in the United States, we can better educate and find solutions for people impacted by how food waste contributes to food insecurity.
OUR RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1
How do levels of food production and consumption (in the farm, foodservice, manufacturing, residential, and retail sectors) reflect U.S. state’s food waste behavior?
2
What does the relationship between food production and food waste tell us about the role of food waste reduction in food security?
