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Mark Brennan
Researcher at the MIT Center for Transportation

Mark Brennan is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Transportation and Logistics and the Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation, which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is a doctoral student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Previously he has worked with the U.N. World Food Programme’s operations to reduce post-harvest losses, Senegal’s national university, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s summer meals program in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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September 22
2016

Mark Brennan

Thinking Outside the Bag: Bringing Together Private Packaging Firms, Public Procurement to Feed More Hungry People

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) conservatively estimates that 1 percent of all food aid shipped every year is lost to factors like spoilage or physical damage. That’s enough to feed about 200,000 families for a month — $15 million lost each year. This summer, USAID, USDA and American packaging companies are running an experiment with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to understand which kinds of food aid packaging may better prevent spoilage.

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Agriculture, Technology

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innovation, public-private partnerships

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Mark Brennan
Researcher at the MIT Center for Transportation

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Thinking Outside the Bag: Bringing Together Private Packaging Firms, Public Procurement to Feed More Hungry People

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Mark BrennanResearcher at the MIT Center for Transportation

Articles by Mark Brennan

Thinking Outside the Bag: Bringing Together Private Packaging Firms, Public Procurement to Feed More Hungry People

Mark Brennan
Researcher at the MIT Center for Transportation