Chris Laughton (MS ARE), Professor Rigoberto Lopez and ARE undergraduate student Avery Bikerman complete an analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on the Connecticut Dairy Farm Sector for the Zwick Center on Food and Resource Policy. See the fact sheet CT Dairy-COVID-Factsheet-FINAL.pdf .pdf and outreach Report Covid-19-Dairy-Zwick report 67-FINAL.pdf..pdf
Associate Professor Nathan Fiala and co-author Mahesh Dahal published research earlier this year in World Development where they showed that current literature about microfinance is statistically under-powered and flawed. Read more on UConn Today.
New NBER Working Paper.pdf by Professor Sandro Steinbach focuses on the impacts of retaliatory tariffs on agriculture.
Professor Sandro Steinbach and Professor Colin Carter from the University of California Davis are creating tools that measure the effects retaliatory trade policies on U.S. agricultural exports. The researchers received a $485,000 grant from the Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study more than 8,000 impacted commodities.
Got Allergies? Have a beetle! Professor Sandro Steinbach co-lead a multidisciplinary team that measured the healthcare costs of common ragweed’s European invasion, and the countervailing impact of a second invasive species – the leaf beetle. “Assessing the human health impacts of invasive alien species is a difficult task; it requires collaboration among scientists from different disciplines, including plant and insect ecology, aerobiology, medicine, and economics.” says Steinbach. Read more about this story in UConn Today.
Professor Sandro Steinbach finds that California’s wine, walnuts, oranges, and table grapes were the export commodities most affected by tariffs imposed as part of the US-China trade war. Since the beginning of the trade war, China has taken advantage of the opportunity to continue diversifying its agricultural supply chains. Read more about this topic.
Professor Nathan Fiala and PhD student Alicia Barriga publish results of their research that show ho mismanagement and inadequate infrastructure pose a significant problem for Ugandan farmers.
Professor Richard Dunn is interviewed by ABC News about his research on death rates and economic turndowns.
Professor Bob Pomeroy‘s work is combating illegal fishing to strengthen maritime security and environmental sustainability
The Zwick Center releases a new study that quantifies Connecticut green industry’s economic impact.
Dr. Sandro Steinbach receives funding to develop tools to understand trade war effects on agriculture industry.
The Zwick Center releases reports showing the impacts of Connecticut’s agricultural industries.
Kimberly Rollins appointed head of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Rebecca Boehm published an article in the Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation website discussing U.S. household food purchasing and the large part it plays in contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.
Assistant Professor Sandro Steinbach, the newest faculty member of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, was featured in Naturally@UConn.
Shaina Stamp, a CAHNR student studying in a summer program abroad at the Mediterranean Agribusiness School in Spain, was awarded the best final project presentation in her class for her marketing and communications.
ARE student Risa Lewis was selected for COP24 by a 12-member UConn@COP Organizing Committee. COP24 is the acronym for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Previous conferences in Bonn, Germany and Paris, France. This year’s event will take place from December 3-14, 2018, in Katowice, Poland.
Rebecca Boehm was cited in The Washington Post in an article published on Monday, June 11th, 2018, in an article entitled: The U.S. Diet is a Climate Disaster. Here are Four Easy Fixes. The article is about average American household diets, and how consumers can make changes in personal lifestyle habits to help limit the greenhouse gas emissions caused by food production and transportation, with suggestions and research by Boehm. The full article can be found here. She was also cited in another article in Daily Science.
The Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy invites you to the release of latest numbers on the contribution of agricultural sectors to the Connecticut economy, including statewide sales, jobs, wages, and non-traditional impacts. Comparisons to the 2010 study, identifying rising and declining sectors.
Please see the latest report here.