About
Jocelyn Boiteau is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI) in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. She is interested in food systems and how they shape food environments and food security. Jocelyn is continuing the research on food loss and waste she began as a TCI scholar. Her current project explores food loss and waste across food groups and stages of structural transformation. Jocelyn earned her Ph.D. in international nutrition in 2021. Her doctorate focused on developing metrics for measuring the food loss of perishable vegetables in value chains. Jocelyn received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University, completed a dietetic internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital to become a registered dietitian, and briefly worked with a local NGO in Rajasthan on agriculture and nutrition activities. She also worked as the project administrator for the Food Aid Quality Review at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
