Food Systems Publications
Food and Agriculture
An Assessment of Challenges Facing Connecticut Farmers in 2023
Author: Cristina Connolly, Rigoberto Lopex, Emma Bojinova, Saskia Krebbers, Carolanne Cusack | 2023 | Outreach Report
Farm to School in Connecticut
Author: Cristina Connolly, Alyssa McDonnell, Christine Dosseh, Jacob Gentile | 2023 | Research Report
Wine Sales in Connecticut Grocery Stores: A Deeper Dive into the Data
Author: Kimberly Rollins, Cristina Connolly, Alyssa McDonnell | 2023 | Outreach Report
Farm to Institution: Highlighting Local Food Procurement at the University of Connecticut
Author: Hannah Colonie-Kelley, Christina Connolly, Matt Chen | 2022 | Outreach Report
Costs and Returns for Eggplant Production in Connecticut in 2018
Author: Binod Khanal | 2019 | Outreach Report No. 59
Financial Analysis of Hay Production in Connecticut
Author: Gunnar W. Eubanks, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta | 2019 | Outreach Report No. 57
Food Insecurity and Obesity Incidence Across Connecticut
Author: Rebecca Boehm, Jiff Martin, Jaime Foster, and Rigoberto A. Lopez | 2019 | Outreach Report No. 54
Consumer Purchases of Connecticut-Grown Food and Farm Products
Author: Rebecca Boehm and John Bovay | 2018 | Outreach Report No. 52
Contract Farming in Practice: An Overview
Author: Erkan Rehber | 2018 | Research Report
Testing Local Bias in Food Consumption: The Case of Fluid Milk
Author: Binod Khanal, Rigoberto A. Lopez and Azzeddine Azzam | 2018 | Working Paper
Economic Impact of Connecticuts Dairy Industry
Author: Rigoberto Lopez | 2017 | Outreach Report
Economic Impacts of Connecticut’s Agricultural Industry: 2015 Update
Author: Rigoberto A. Lopez, Rebecca Boehm, Marcela Pineda, Peter Gunther, and Fred Carstensen | 2017 | Research Report
A meta analysis of farm efficiency: evidence from the production frontier literature
Author: Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, Roberto Jara-Rojas, Michée A. Lachaud, and Víctor H. Moreira | 2017 | Research Report
The sustainability of farmer-led multiplication and dissemination of high-yield and disease resistant groundnut varieties
Author: Jeremy Jeliffe, Boris Bravo-Ureta, C. Michael Deom, and David Kalule Okello | 2016 | Research Report
Local vs. Organic Products
Author: Ben Campbell | 2015 | Outreach Report
What's Happening with Local? The Ins and Outs of Local Purchasing
Author: Ben Campbell, Adam Rabinowitz, and Yizao Liu | 2015 | Fact Sheet
Economic Impacts of Agriculture in Eight Northeastern States
Author: Rigoberto A. Lopez, Nataliya Plesha and Ben Campbell | 2015 | Outreach Report
Economic Impacts of Agriculture in Eight Northeastern States
Author: Rigoberto A. Lopez | 2014 | Research Report
Local vs. Organic
Author: Ben Campbell | 2014 | Outreach Report 25
Cost of producing milk in Connecticut: An Overview
Author: Boris Bravo-Ureta | 2013 | Outreach Report
Home Bias in U.S. Beer Consumption
Author: Lopez, Rigoberto A. and Xenia Matschke | 2011 | Working Paper
A Preliminary Response to the Report Prepared for the Massachusetts Food Association by John Schnittker titled, 'An Analysis of the Cotterill Proposal
Author: Ronald Cotterill | 2003 | Outreach Report
An analysis of the Cotterill Proposal
Author: John Schnittker | 2003 | Outreach Report
Impact of the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact on Consumer Prices for Fluid Milk
Author: Kenneth W. Bailey | 2001 | Outreach Report
Health
Food Insecurity and Obesity Incidence Across Connecticut
Author: Rebecca Boehm, Jiff Martin, Jaime Foster, and Rigoberto A. Lopez | 2019 | Outreach Report No. 54
A Longitudinal Analysis of Fast-Food Exposure on Child Weight Outcomes: Identifying Causality Through School Transitions
Author: Dunn, Richard A., Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr., Michael Thomsen and Heather L. Rouse | 2014 | Working Paper
Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crash Risk and the Location of Alcohol Purchase
Author: Cotti, Chad, Richard A. Dunn, and Nathan Tefft | 2013 | Working Paper
The Use of Voluntary Marketing Initiatives to Improve the Nutritional Profile of Kids Cereals
Author: Cohen, Michael, Rui Huang and Chen Zhu | 2012 | Working Paper
Trade and Policy
CDP Hemp Production Costs and Returns for Connecticut Farmers in 2020
Author: Jeremy Jelliffe, Rigoberto A. Lopez, Shuresh Ghimire | 2020 | Outreach Report No. 66
Economic Impacts of Agriculture in Eight Northeastern States
Author: Rigoberto A. Lopez, Nataliya Plesha and Ben Campbell | 2015 | Outreach Report
Issues for the Future: Local and Organic Outlook
Author: Ben Campbell | 2014 | Outreach Report
Economic and Sustainability impacts of Connecticuts public act 09-229 to support dairy farming
Author: Rigoberto A Lopez, Adam N. Rabinowitz, Nataliya Plesha | 2013 | Outreach Report No. 17
An Evalution of Government and Industry Proposed Restrictions on Television Advertising of Breakfast Cereals to Children
Author: Berning, Joshua, Rui Huang and Adam Rabinowitz | 2011 | Working Paper
The supply chain for seed in Uganda: Where does it all go wrong?
Author: Alicia Barriga and Nathan Fiala | 2018 | Working Paper
Consumer Responses to Voluntary Nutrition Labeling in the Presence of Information Spillovers
Author: Chen Zhu, Rigoberto A. Lopez,and Xiaoou Liu | 2017 | Working Paper
Household Consumption Responses to SNAP Participation
Author: Shaheer Burney | 2017 | Working Paper
Eat at Home or Away from Home? The Role of Grocery and Restaurant Food Sales Taxes
Author: Yuqing Zheng, Diansheng Dong, Shaheer Burney, and Harry M. Kaiser | 2017 | Working Paper
Examining the Regulatory Environment Facing Northeast Agricultural Producers
Author: Benjamin Campbell, Laura Dunn, and Adam N. Rabinowitz | 2015 | Research Report
Oligopoly Power in the Food Industries Revisited: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
Author: Lopez, Rigoberto A., Hualu Zheng, and Azzeddine Azzam | 2015 | Working Paper
Heterogeneity in Consumer Responses to Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels: Evidence from a Natural Experiment?
Author: Zhu, Chen and Rui Huang | 2013 | Working Paper
How Effective is Public Policy in Decreasing Soda Consumption? An Assessment of Four Policy Options
Author: Liu, Yizao, Rigoberto A. Lopez, and Chen Zhu | 2013 | Working Paper
Spillover and Competitive Effects of Advertising in the Carbonated Soft Drink Market
Author: Lopez, Rigoberto A., Yizau Liu, and Chen Zhu | 2013 | Working Paper
An Empirical Analysis of Equilibrium Pricing and Advertising in the Ready-To-Eat Cereal Market
Author: Cohen, Michael and Adam Rabinowitz | 2012 | Working Paper
Entry of Wal-Mart Supercenters and Supermarkets’ Profit Margins
Author: Lopez, Rigoberto A. and Xiaoou Liu | 2011 | Working Paper
Toward Reform of Fluid Milk Pricing in Southern New England: Farm Level, Wholesale and Retail Prices in the Fluid Milk Marketing Channel: 2003 - 2006
Author: Ronald W. Cotterill, Adam N. Rabinowitz, Michael A. Cohen, Melanie R. Murphy, Charles R. Rhodes | 2007 | Outreach Report