Science by the Slice podcast: COVID-19 and food systems
May 6, 2021
Hikaru Peterson, PhD, discusses current COVID-19 research and the impacts the pandemic has had on the U.S. food system
The U.S. food system — which allows food to get from the field to your table — is complex. With COVID-19, it became even more complicated, impacting the system from supply and demand to labor.
In the latest series of the “Science by the Slice” podcast from the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ Center for Public Issues Education, you’ll hear from agricultural economists Hikaru Peterson, PhD, from the University of Minnesota's Department of Applied Economics in CFANS, and Christa Court, PhD, from the University of Florida. They discuss their current research related to COVID-19 and the impacts the pandemic has had on the U.S. food system.
