Research Talk: Where Does Food Go? Disruption, Waste, and the Fragility of Food Supply Chains Presentation by Dr. Jessye Bemley Talley.
Morgan State University-UCLA Initiative's Faculty Research Mentorship Program
Research Talk: Where Does Food Go? Disruption, Waste, and the Fragility of Food Supply Chains Presentation by Dr. Jessye Bemley Talley.
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation & Creative Activities (ORCA) is excited to announce its partnership with Morgan State University, a public research Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Baltimore, Maryland. This initiative aims to strengthen research exchange and expand mentorship opportunities for undergraduate students, as well as faculty, across both institutions.
A key component of the initiative is the Faculty Research Mentorship Program, which pairs two Morgan State University Associate Professors with faculty mentors from both Morgan State and UCLA. Through this program, we aim to support the faculty mentees in their pursuit of promotion to full professor.
Please join us in supporting Dr. Jessye Bemley Talley, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering at Morgan State University, as she shares her research with the UCLA community.
Every year, a significant amount of food we produce never reaches our plate because of various disruptions that happen along the supply chain. However, the literature remains fragmented in how disruptions can be defined, measured, and linked to downstream loss. This talk presents a synthesis of trends from a structured review of the food supply chain disruption data literature. This synthesis includes disruption types, food types, supply chain stages, regions, modeling approaches along with other characteristics to identify what has been understudied. Then we will explore an emerging typology of food waste. In this context waste is classified using three perspectives (i.e. Prevention, Rescue, and Valorization) and later segmented into various for analysis. These perspectives will motivate questions about how waste and disruptions can be jointly represented to analyze supply chain resilience.