The Food SCENE Overview
The Food SCENE’s central focus is to conduct research on the organizational, social and technological innovations that impact the global food supply chain. Food supply chain issues are broad in nature, but the Food SCENE’s analyses result in specific recommendations that are academically robust, industry or country specific, and informative to the public. Our unique global perspective influences our research agenda in that we see the same problematic phenomena worldwide in the food industry, in the same light as the general population, but our approach to providing information and recommendations is quite unique.
Specifically, the Food SCENE is investigating issues such as how grocery firms make decisions to place retail outlets in some of the poorest cities in the world, primarily U.S. urban food deserts, and the demand for healthier food products among urban food desert consumers. Other research of the group includes analyzing concentration in multiple sectors of the organic food industry, the development of the biofuels industry in South Africa and its impact on crop production and the consumption of staple foods, as well as the determining the effects of how information technology liberates specialty coffee producers from the New York Mercantile Exchange commodity price.
