Dr. Nika Larian is a Food Loss and Waste Advisor in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Center for Nutrition. Dr. Larian is the Co-Chair of the Food Safety...

TechnoServe is a leader in harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty. A nonprofit organization operating in 29 countries, we work with enterprising men and women in the developing...

The Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab (FSN-IL) is a Feed the Future Initiative that is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implements by Tufts University. FSN-IL generates new...

Eric Verploegen, PhD, is the founder of CoolVeg, a business that disseminates technologies based on evaporative cooling for fruit and vegetable preservation in off-grid dry regions. He has ongoing projects in Mali, Niger, Kenya,...

Food Enterprise Solutions is on a mission to energize the global food system to better balance global needs and profit. We leverage the powers of business, entrepreneurship, and innovation as key drivers in the global fight...

I am a founder of MAVUNOLAB (https://mavunolab.org/), the Postharvest Innovation Centre that works with young engineers in Tanzania to develop low-cost postharvest technologies and services for small-scale farmers. In research, I...

I work in communications for the Data in Emergencies team at FAO. https://data-in-emergencies.fao.orgWe are a BHA funded initiative that collects granular data multiple times a year to monitor agricultural livelihoods and food...

Amy is a second-year ORISE Research Fellow working at EPA Headquarters in Washington, DC. She has several years of food waste and composting experience, and enjoys discussing the wicked problem of food waste with unsuspecting...