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Food System Lab
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A lab exploring how food distribution systems work through the economics of distribution.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the behavior of distribution actors and the design of institutions.
The Food System Lab studies how food is distributed from the perspective of distribution economics.
Many distribution actors are involved from upstream to downstream, and their behaviors affect one another.
The lab clarifies the behavioral principles of each actor and explores institutional design and contract design that lead to overall optimization.
Its main interests are the efficiency and stability of food distribution and food safety.
Key terms
- Food system
- A structure in which many players, from upstream to downstream, depend on one another for the purpose of food distribution
- Distribution actors
- The many diverse players involved in food distribution from upstream to downstream
- Overall optimization
- The best state when viewed across the whole system. It is not necessarily achieved even when each actor acts rationally in its own interest
ResearchResearch themes
The lab examines food systems from two sides: the behavior of distribution actors and institutional design. Its research themes include the institutions, organizations, and functions of food systems; the strategic behavior of distribution actors; the wholesale market system and contract transactions; and institutional design for ensuring food safety.
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- ProfessorMasahiro Moritaka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Western Wholesale Food Market 2” Minghong / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Behavioral principles of distribution actors and institutional design: “The produce area inside an Ingles supermarket in Murphy, N.C” Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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