On the Street: New Food Industry Center Director at University of Minnesota
June 16/Minneapolis, Minn./US Fed News --Distinguished economist Robert King will become director of The Food Industry Center at the University of Minnesota next month. King, a professor and former head of the university's Department of Applied Economics, replaces the center's founding director, Jean Kinsey, who is retiring.
King's research focuses on local food systems, organic agriculture, and on management issues facing food retailers, farmer cooperatives and farmers. He teaches courses on managerial economics and cooperatives and helps advise Cornercopia, the university's student organic farm. He has been involved with numerous projects at the center since its founding in 1995 and has been a faculty member in the applied economics department since 1983.