Food supply chains are critical to our food security, yet detailed spatial information on food flows within countries is rare. This talk will present research to estimate and evaluate the national food supply chain of the United States. Estimates of food flows between all counties in the United States will enable future work to understand vulnerabilities within a national food supply chain, determine critical infrastructures, and enable spatially detailed footprint assessments.
Megan Konar is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof Konar's research focuses on the intersection of water, food, and trade. Her research is interdisciplinary and draws from hydrology, environmental science, and economics. Dr. Konar received a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University in 2012, MS in Water Science, Policy and Management from Oxford University in 2005, and BS in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC Berkeley in 2002. She was recently awarded the NSF CAREER award and Early Career Award from AGU Hydrologic Sciences.
