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Biography
Parke Wilde (PhD, Cornell) is a food economist and professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Previously, he worked for USDA’s Economic Research Service. He studies food security and hunger measurement, the economics of food assistance programs, and federal dietary guidance policy. With USDA support, he directs the RIDGE extramural research grants program and directed a 2021-2022 grants program on household food security measurement. He is co-organizer of a university climate initiative (flyingless.org). He received the AAEA Distinguished Quality of Communication award for the textbook, Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction, second edition (Routledge/Earthscan, 2018).