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Creating An Airbnb For The Food Industry

Americans waste a lot of food — by some estimates, we throw away 40 percent of our food supply every year. But researchers from ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business are using tech to try to reduce that number.

Through a grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, they’ll look for ways to better match food producers and consumers.

With me to explain is Tim Richards. He’s a professor of agribusiness at the Casey School, and teaches economics and the economics of the food industry.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.