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2025
Toward nitrogen-fixing crops: Improving nitrogenase activity in non-diazotrophic hosts
Daniel Suess, Department of Chemistry
Stable, low-cost engineered proteins as biofungicides
Hadley D. Sikes, Department of Chemical Engineering
Food-safe, wireless RFID sensor on smart packaging for pH monitoring in the cold chain
Sanjay Sarma, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Toward sustainable food protein manufacturing
Peter Dedon, Department of Biological Engineering
Optimal subsidy design: Application to food assistance programs
Ali Aouad, MIT Sloan School of Management
AI enabled spectral fingerprinting of pathogens for rapid food and water screening
Loza Tadesse, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Incentive design to promote long-term adoption of sustainable practices by smallholder farmers in India
Y. Karen Zheng, Sloan School of Management
Food security in Africa through microbiome engineering
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tami Lieberman, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute for Medical Science and Engineering
Darcy McRose, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tavneet Suri, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sixian You, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2024
Empowering Indigenous communities: A framework for climate resilience and migration planning in La Guajira, Colombia
Sarah Williams, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Eran Ben - Joseph, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Gabriella Carolini, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Janelle Knox-Hayes, Department of Urban Studies & Planning
National crop type maps of India using deep learning and street view imagery
Sherrie Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Data, Systems, and Society
Food security in Africa under a changing climate – Navigating the energy and agricultural transition to net zero
Jennifer Morris, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Energy Initiative
Adam Schlosser, Center for Global Change Science, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Kenneth Strzepek, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Center for Global Change Science
The role of livestock in climate change: Holistic greenhouse gas assessments and implications for human diets
César Terrer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2023
Advancing technology development to improve microbiome processes for controlling harmful bacteria blooms in aquaculture algae feed production
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Otto X. Cordero, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Robert Vincent, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Sea Grant
Persistent monitoring of nitrogen waste products in the environment
Rajeev Ram, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Using secondary metabolites to manage legacy phosphorus
Darcy McRose, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Multiplexed motion-amplified microbead sensors for rapid measurement and monitoring of trace contaminants in water
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Optimizing cereal crop plant architecture during an era of high atmospheric CO2
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Automated counting of migrating salmon for conservation and fisheries management in the Pacific Northwest
Sara Beery, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of AI and Decision Making, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Catalyzing sustainable food and climate systems transitions in the Lake Victoria Basin
Greg Sixt, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
Michael Hauser, Research Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab
Enhanced photosynthesis in crops (EPiC)
Matt Shoulders, Department of Chemistry
Mary Gehring, Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute
Bin Zhang, Department of Chemistry
Bryan Bryson, Department of Biological Engineering
Robert Wilson, Department of Chemistry
2022
Safe off-grid brooder for Cameroonian poultry farmers
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Daniel Sweeney, MIT D-Lab
Converging trends in climate change, mining, and agriculture: Analysis of hydrosocial relations over desalination and glaciers in Chile
John E. Fernández, Department of Architecture
Scott D. Odell, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
High-resolution plant water stress monitoring
César Terrer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cloud-based data applications for streamlining natural resource management
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering