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Food System Science Lab (Yuki Yano)
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The lab uses economics to study consumer attitudes and behavior toward vegetables from plant factories and genome-edited foods.

AboutAbout the lab
Reading how people choose what to eat through economics.
Associate Professor Yano of the Food System Science field specializes in agricultural and environmental economics.
In recent years, the lab has empirically studied consumer attitudes and behavior toward foods such as vegetables grown in plant factories and foods that use genome editing technology.
The professor teaches food system science in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the undergraduate level and in the Graduate School of Horticulture.
Key terms
- Food system
- The whole chain of connections through which food is produced, processed, distributed, and consumed
- Plant factory
- A facility that grows vegetables and other crops indoors, with light, temperature, nutrients, and other conditions controlled by people
- Genome editing
- A technology that rewrites a targeted location in an organism's genetic information (its genome)
ResearchResearch themes
Specializing in agricultural and environmental economics, the lab studies consumer attitudes and behavior toward food. Its subjects include vegetables from plant factories and foods that use genome editing technology.
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- Associate ProfessorYuki Yano
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- Top image: “At Stream, which cultivates mulberry hydroponically ( )” Satoshi KINOKUNI / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Consumer attitudes and behavior toward food: “Grand Prairie May 2019 29 (Grand Prairie Farmers Market)” Michael Barera / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Resource and Environmental Economics Lab (Atsushi Maruyama)): “Farm landscape near Rajshahi” Muntashir Al-Islam / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Food System Studies Lab (Seiichi Sakurai)): “Produce at the USDA Farmers Market ( )” USDAgov / Public domain (cropped)
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