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