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Unraveling spatial-temporal food supply chain patterns to enhance resilience and sustainability

On October 8, 2026, the School of Sustainability hosted Deniz Karakoc to discuss her research on spatial-temporal food supply chain patterns. Agriculture and food supply chains are vital for feeding humanity. Along these complex systems, distribution of the perishable goods between the supply and demand locations is facilitated by multi-modal transportation infrastructure. While safeguarding the transportation of agri-food commodities against a set of unforeseen threats such as pandemics, socio-political disputes, economic crises, and extreme weather events is paramount, it is also a challenging goal. In this talk, I will propose interdisciplinary approaches to cultivate the resilience of agri-food flow networks through optimization, data analytics, applied network science, and geographic information science techniques. In particular, I will present three frameworks to (i) estimate the temporal agri-food flows between the U.S counties, (ii) identify the logistics hubs within the U.S. agri-food supply chains, and (iii) assess the agri-food specific load on the U.S. highways, railways, and waterways. Through these efforts, I provide detailed agri-food transportation information on a finer spatial resolution to guide policy- and decision-making regarding food security.