| Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Project Title | Principal Investigators | Co-Investigators | Total Award |
| EPA | 7-2016 | 6-2019 | Valuation of Water Quality Change in Environment and Economy Context: Ecosystem Services across Gradients of Degradation and Local Economic Interest | Stephen Swallow, Ashley Helton, Christine Kirschoff, Pengfei Liu, Charles Towe, Timothy Vadas | $799,994 | |
| USDA / NIFA/ AFRI | 3-2016 | 2-2020 | Measuring the Food and Agriculture Economy | Richard Dunn | N/A | $499,872 |
| USDA / NIFA / AFRI | 1-2016 | 12-2017 | Advancing Ecosystem Services, Valuation, Decision-Support, and Agricultural Revenue: EPRI’s Ohio River Water Quality Trading Auctions | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $500,000 |
| American Cheese Society | 1-2016 | 12-2016 | U.S. Artisan and Specialty Cheese Industry Census | Dennis D’Amico | Adam Rabinowitz | $24,000 |
| USDA / NIFA / AFRI | 1-2016 | 12-2019 | Productivity Growth, Irrigation Efficiency and Climatic Variability in U.S. Agriculture: Empirical Analyses with Emerging Methodologies | Boris Bravo-Ureta | N/A | $499,995 |
| CT Sea Grant/UConn CIRCA | 1-2016 | 1-2017 | Survey of Connecticut coastal residents to examine their preferences and values with respect to various measures to preserve coastal areas and resources in the face of sea level rise | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $225,000 |
| USDA / NIFA / AFRI | 1-2016 | 12-2017 | A New Look at Total Factor Productivity and Irrigation Water Use Efficiency: An Analysis of U.S. Agriculture | Erik Njuki/Boris Bravo-Ureta | N/A | $149,988 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | 9-2015 | 8-2016 | Assessing Nutrition Quality in CACFP-Participating Child-Care Centers Prior to Implementation of Revised Meal Patterns | Tatiana Andreyeva | N/A | $27,000 |
| CT Food Policy Council | 6-2015 | 12-2015 | Community Food Security in Connecticut | Adam Rabinowitz | N/A | $15,000 |
| Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, UConn | 3-2015 | 3-2016 | Initiating a Partnership with EPRI in the Ohio River Water Quality Trading Auction: A Pilot Test of Experimental Methods for Integrating Environmental Valuation and Market Decision | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $5,000 |
| University of Connecticut Scholarship Facilitation Fund | 3-2015 | 7-2015 | Visualization and Valuation of Nutritional Information on Menus | Ben Campbell | N/A | $2,000 |
| RARE | 3-2015 | 7-2015 | Livelihoods Situational Analysis Phillippines: Scoping | Robert Pomeroy | N/A | $68,833 |
| USDA / NIFA / AFRI | 2-2015 | 2-2018 | Water Supply Capacity Credits within a Hydrologic Basin: Sustaining Ecosystem Services and Revenues from Undeveloped Forests and Farms | Stephen Swallow | Farhed Shah G. Robbins G.Warner |
$500,000 |
| International Initiative for Impact Evaluation | 2-2015 | 7-2015 | Smallholder Market-Led Project (SMLP) | Nathan Fiala | N/A | $20,000 |
| Lower Connecticut River Valley Council of Governments | 2-2015 | 6-2015 | Market Dynamics Associated with Middlesex County | Ben Campbell | N/A | $1,500 |
| USDA Agriculture Food and Research Initiative, Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area | 2-2015 | 6-2016 | Nutrition Quality of Foods in Non-CACFP Child Care Centers | Tatiana Andreyeva | Adam Rabinowitz | $149,603 |
| USDA Economic Research Service | 1-2015 | 12-2017 | Agricultural Productivity and Farm Size in Southern African Countries: Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi | Boris Bravo-Ureta | $140,000 | |
| USDA / NIFA /AFRI | 1-2015 | 12-2017 | Community-level Incentives to Support Farm, Forest, and Open Space Land Conservation in the Rural-Urban Fringe | Corey Lang | Stephen Swallow Shanna Pearson |
$190,000 |
| USDA/Department of Agriculture/CT Department of Agriculture | 1-2015 | 9-2017 | Exploring the Economic and Production Viability of Ethnic Vegetables and Novel Small Fruits in Connecticut | Ben Campbell | N/A | $23,441 |
| USDA/Agricultural Marketing Service | 9-2014 | 9-2016 | Opportunities for Growth of Local Milk: An Analysis of Consumer Demand and Marketing Practices | Ben Campbell | Yizao Liu, Adam Rabinowitz | $47,807 |
| USDA/Agricultural Research Service | 9-2014 | 9-2016 | Firm Dynamics in the Agricultural Services Sector: Evidence from the Longitudinal Business Database | Richard Dunn | N/A | $30,000 |
| Horticultural Research Institute/Michigan State University | 9-2014 | 8-2015 | The Role of Plant Brands in Consumer Preferences for Plants and their Perceptions of Plant Quality | Ben Campbell | Victoria Wallace, Jason Henderson, John Inguagiato, Steven Rackliffe |
$30,000 |
| U.S. Agency for International Development/University of Georgia | 8-2014 | 7-2017 | Productivity and Profitability Growth in Peanut Production: A Farm Level Analysis in Malawai, Mozambique and Zambia | Boris Bravo-Ureta | N/A | $230,018 |
| DOC/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | 7-2014 | 6-2015 | Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in Asia | Robert Pomeroy | N/A | $138,000 |
| U.S. Agency for International Development/North Carolina State University | 5-2014 | 7-2017 | Using Applied Research and Technology Transfer to Minimize Aflatoxin Contamination and Increase Yield, Quality and Marketing of Peanut in Ghana | Boris Bravo-Ureta | N/A | $100,000 |
| USDA/Department of Agriculture | 3-2014 | 2-2016 | Credit Stacking in Environmental Markets: Farmers’ Participation Incentives, Social Efficiency and Potential Environmental Consequences | Stephen Swallow | Robin L. Chazdon, Christopher Elphick | $289,250 |
| NOAA National Sea Grant | 2-2014 | 1-2018 | Connecticut Sea Grant Extension Work Plan 2014 – 2018 | Robert Pomeroy | N/A | $729,740 |
| USDA/Agricultural Research Service/University of Florida | 12-2013 | 12-2015 | Increase the Sales and Marketability of Florida Commercially Grown Speciality Crops | Ben Campbell | N/A | $141,952 |
| U.S. Agency for International Development/University of Georgia | 11-2013 | 7-2017 | An Integrated Global Breeding and Genomics Approach to Intensifying Peanut Production and Quality | Boris Bravo-Ureta | N/A | $19,000 |
| USDA/Department of Agriculture/CT Department of Agriculture | 11-2013 | 9-2016 | Increasing the Value of CT Speciality Crops through Increased Labeling and Access | Ben Campbell | Joshua Berning, Mary Concklin, Yizao Liu, Leanne S. Pundt |
$73,163 |
| Korea Environment Institute | 11-2013 | 12-2013 | Data Collection and Analysis for Future Adaption and Application of R-Rescon Software to Mekong River | Farhed Shah | N/A | $10,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | 10-2013 | 8-2014 | Valuing the Coast: Long Island, New York | Robert Pomeroy | Di Yang | $22,000 |
| NSF/GEO/Directorate for Geosciences/Conservation International Fund | 10-2013 | 8-2016 | Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Maintaining Productivity and Incomes in the Tonle Sap Fishery in the Face of Climate Change | Robert Pomeroy | N/A | $52,853 |
| NOAA National Sea Grant | 9-2013 | 8-2015 | The Coast Storm Awareness Program – Connecticut Sea Grant Share | Syma Ebbin | N/A | $610,666 |
| New England Regional Turfgrass Foundation | 6-2013 | 8-2015 | Economic Impact and Contribution of the Turfgrass Industry in New England | Ben Campbell | Jason Henderson, John C. Inguagiato, Steven Rackliffe, Victoria Wallace | $36,570 |
| USDA/Specialty Crop Block Grant Program | 5-2013 | 9-2015 | Buying Local: Measuring Baseline Consumption and Awareness in Connecticut | Ben Campbell | N/A | $73,981 |
| NSF/BIO/Directorate for Biological Sciences/University of Virginia | 12-2012 | 11-2015 | Long-Term Nonlinear Dynamics of a Coastal Barrier System | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $75,000 |
| NSF Long Term Ecological Research network, Virginia Coastal Reserve | 11-2012 | 10-2018 | LTER: Drivers, dynamics and consequences of non-linear change in coastal barrier systems | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $150,000 |
| USDA/Economic Research Service/South Dakota State University | 9-2012 | 12-2014 | Economics of WIC and Infant Formula Markets | Rui Huang | Yonghong An | $12,000 |
| USDA/Department of Agriculture/Cornell University | 6-2012 | 9-2013 | Hunger-Driven Food Choices: An Experiment to Test the Effect of Providing Pre-Lunch Snacks on School Lunch Choices | Joshua Berning | Rui Huang | $20,000 |
| Korea Environment Institute | 5-2012 | 6-2012 | Development of an Enhanced Software Package for Assisting with Sustainable Water Resource Management in Ethiopia | Farhed Shah | N/A | $10,000 |
| USDA/Department of Agriculture | 3-2012 | 12-2013 | Developing Ecosystem Services Businesses as New Revenues for Farms in Communities Facing Exurban Development | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $183,641 |
| University of Connecticut Agricultural Research Station, Hatch Grant | 10-2011 | 9-2016 | Markets for and Values of Ecosystem Services: Experiments and Evaluations of Opportunities for New Farm and Rural Revenues in a Green Economy | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $240,000 |
| USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture | 9-2011 | 8-2016 | Interaction Between Productivity Growth and Environmental Factors for Multi-output Farms with a Dairy Focus | Boris Bravo-Ureta | N/A | $318,103 |
| Korea Environment Institute | 7-2011 | 11-2011 | Development of a Preliminary Software Package for Assisting with Sustainable Water Resource Management in Ethiopia | Farhed Shah | N/A | $20,000 |
| USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture | 7-2011 | 6-2015 | Making Markets for Ecosystem Services of Farms on the Rural Fringe: Vermont Grasslands for Hay and Nesting Songbirds | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $450,499 |
| USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture/University of California, Berkeley | 6-2011 | 12-2013 | Ecosystem Auctions for Decision Support (EADS) Project – UConn | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $61,081 |
| USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture/University of Maine | 2-2011 | 12-2012 | Examination of Finfish Pathogen Physiology and Predictive Ecology in a Bibalve/Finfish Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture System | Robert Pomeroy | N/A | $16,729 |
| NSF/BIO/Directorate for Biological Sciences/University of Virginia | 1-2011 | 11-2013 | Social Science Supplements: Testing Auction Mechanisms for Ecosystem Services | Stephen Swallow | N/A | $37,579 |
| U.S. Agency for International Development/Conservation International Fund | 1-2011 | 9-2013 | EAFM Program Plan for USCTI Support Program | Robert Pomeroy | N/A | $274,983 |
| U.S. Agency for International Development/Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 9-2010 | 9-2015 | Capacity Building for Agricultural Education and Research (CBAER) in Senegal: A Needs Assessment of the Expected Demand for Professionals Trained in Agricultural Sciences in Senegal | Boris Bravo-Ureta | Daniel L. Civco, Abdou Ndoye | $499,011 |
| USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture | 9-2010 | 8-2013 | Food Marketing Policy Center for Research | Ronald Cotterill | Rui Huang, Rigoberto Lopez |
$373,198 |
| USDA/CSREES | 1-2010 | 12-2014 | USDA National Needs Fellowships for M.S. in Resource Economics with a Focus on Integrated Watershed Management and Policy | Rigoberto Lopez | Mekonnen Gebremichael, Robert S. Pomeroy, Kathleen Segerson, Farhed Shah | $218,000 |
| USDA/Department of Agriculture | 1-2010 | 12-2012 | Advertising to Children and Food Choices: Implications for Public Policy | Rui Huang | Michael Cohen, Rigoberto Lopez | $199,248 |
| USDA/CSREES | 1-2010 | 12-2013 | The Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Small and Medium Size Dairy Farms in New England | Boris Bravo-Ureta | Joseph Bonelli, Linda K. Lee, Joyce E. Meader, Richard A. Meinert, Thomas F. Morris, Farhed Shah |
$404,966 |
| USDA/Department of Agriculture/CT Department of Agriculture | 10-2009 | 9-2012 | An Economic Analysis of Grape Production for Wine Making in Connecticut | Boris Bravo-Ureta | Rigoberto Lopez, Joyce E. Meader |
$49,998 |
| USDA/CSREES | 9-2009 | 8-2012 | Food Marketing Policy Center for Research | Ronald Cotterill | Rui Huang, Rigoberto Lopez |
$373,847 |
| WorldFish Center | 9-2008 | 12-2010 | International Fisheries Governance | Robert Pomeroy | N/A | $159,500 |
| USDA/CSREES | 9-2008 | 8-2011 | Food Marketing Policy Center for Research | Ronald Cotterill | Rigoberto Lopez | $398,175 |
| U.S. Agency for International Development/University of Georgia | 1-2008 | 12-2012 | Peanut Production and Livelihoods of Farm Households in Middle Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Ghana) | Boris Bravo-Ureta | N/A | $447,810 |