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California explores how farm byproducts, forest materials and food waste can be repurposed

July 27, 2026   Office of Public Affairs

A new academic study explores how California’s emerging bioeconomy could create new value from the state’s biological resources while strengthening rural economics and preparing the workforce for new industries. This study is in a special issue of the Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) Update from the University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. It highlights Californians discovering how agricultural …

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Study finds farm-level food waste worse than previously thought – from Civil Eats

August 22, 2019   Office of Public Affairs

By Gosia Wozniacka Last year, Cannon Michael left over 100 acres of ripe cantaloupes unharvested. The sixth generation grower could not justify paying workers to pick them all because the cost of labor, packing, and, shipping would have been more than the price he could get for the fruit. And so, he left about 30 percent of his perfectly edible …

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If you’re wasting food you’re making climate change worse – from USA Today

November 7, 2018   Office of Public Affairs

By Tia Nelson Wasting food has been called the “world’s dumbest environmental problem.” Every year, the average family of four in the U.S. tosses roughly $2,000 in food; 30 to 40 percent of food produced in this country ends up discarded. At dinner, our parents urged us to finish everything on our plates. Beyond the moral and economic reasons to do so, it turns out there’s …

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The food that goes bad in your fridge amounts to trillions of gallons of wasted water – from the Los Angeles Times

May 21, 2018   Office of Public Affairs

By Karen Kaplan According to a new report in the journal PLOS One, we Americans wasted just over 25% of our food between 2007 and 2014. Although we did a decent job of finishing up our nuts and seeds (only 12% wasted) and potatoes (about 16% wasted), we were not as careful with seafood (nearly 35% wasted), whole fruit (almost …

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