Study explores Ghanaian farmers' willingness to adopt solar-powered cold storage, analyzing economic, perceptual, and contextual adoption factors.
Our Research
Research We're Doing
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From One City to Many: Scaling Best Practices for Healthy Corner Stores
Principal Investigator: William Dietz, MD, PhD
Co-Investigator: Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, ScD, MPA
Collaborators: Daniel Chen, DrPH; Caitlin Grady, PhD
GFI studies food systems and leads research like Healthy Corners to expand healthy food access in underserved U.S. communities.
GFI-Supported Research
GFI supports and conducts research that examines the food system from global, domestic, and local perspectives. The following projects are funded by the institute’s pilot grant program and led by GFI affiliate faculty and staff or are led by GFI directly.
Data-Driven Insights to Address Food Insecurity Among College Students
Principal Investigator: Gabby Headrick, PhD, MSPH, RDN
Co-Investigator: Jennifer Sacheck, PhD
Other members of the research team: Andrew Sonn, Ed.D
Preventing Postharvest Loss Through Solar-Powered Cold Storage Innovation
Research Team: Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga, PhD MPhil; Robert Orttung, PhD MA; and David Rain, PhD
Principal Investigator: Allison Sylvetsky, PhD
Co-Investigators: William (Doug) Evans, PhD; Jennifer Sacheck PhD; and Nia Bodrick MD
Consultant: James Krieger, MD MPH (University of Washington)
Assessing Impacts of Private Investments in Transforming Smallholder Farming
Principal Investigator: Samuel Ledermann, PhD
Co-PI: Michael Mann, PhD MA
Publications
A collaborative report from the Global Food Institute and James Beard Foundation on the immediate threats that climate change poses to independent restaurants, their employees, and the farmers who supply them.
Mitigation of the U.S. agrifood sector’s contribution to human and planetary health: a case study
Authored by William H. Dietz, MD, PhD and Jessica Fanzo
Authored by: Rachel G. Clark, JD, Sydney Pryor, MPH, and William H. Dietz, MD, PhD