Ensuring safe and efficient food systems that can provide societal food security is a major challenge to most countries across the world.
The FSAS Initiative leverages supply chain analytics and sensing technologies to develop and disseminate new tools and analyses that inform the development and implementation of industry best practices and regulatory policies. Learn more about our current work and past projects below.
FSAS Current Research Projects
Past Work
Learn more about our previous work in each of our 3 focus areas below:
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Supply Chain and Market Design Optimization
Our past projects in India, Indonesia and Thailand have focused on improving farmer and consumer welfare, as well as increasing transparency and traceability in agricultural and seafood supply chains. In a number of these cases, the design and development of online platforms for managing supply chains have helped small farmers improve their profitability while also producing other beneficial side effects or byproducts for other stakeholders
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Management of Human Health Risks in Food Supply Chains
Past projects in China have focused on the development of predictive risk modeling, increasing the transparency in the regulation of food safety and the development and implementation of low cost, high throughput sensing technologies capable of testing for multiple categories of contaminants with a single test.
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Access to Healthy Food
Past projects have focused on addressing the needs of households located in “food deserts”, increasing incentives to utilize healthy foods, and minimizing food waste throughout food supply chains. These projects leveraged advanced analytics as well as randomized control trials to recommend interventions that will improve access to healthy food, particularly for low-income households.