Project Grant 0922728

The University of Connecticut was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will fund a research project from January 2022 through December 2025 to develop new knowledge about the evolving structure of the U.S. food retail industry at the establishment level. The university will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of retail...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175) will equip local agricultural producers with the knowledge, practical experience, and continued guidance needed to successfully market, sell, and scale their products at farmers markets. The $317,362.15 grant will fund a four-month program offered twice yearly, enrolling 10 producers per cohort, with 4 having 0-1 years of...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $636,000 project grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to strengthen the capacity of farmers markets. The three-year project aims to identify current and potential farmers market consumer segments, with an emphasis on underrepresented individuals, through a national survey. Informed by the survey findings, messaging strategies will be...

This Project Grant award totaling $649,081 was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Program (CFDA 10.310). The award will fund research to: Develop store-level measures of the healthfulness of food offerings that account for prices, using validated questionnaires, store-level scanner data, and product nutrition information. Identify market boundaries by store format...

This Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will fund the creation of an Agricultural Digital Marketing Learning System by Sam Houston State University (SHSU) under NIFA's Capacity Building for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture program. With total funding of $149,801 over three years from July 2022 to June 2025, the project aims to develop educational programs, research, and outreach activities to increase knowledge and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service, under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175), provides $124,219.00 to assess marketing opportunities and develop, implement, and evaluate a marketing plan with training and promotion for five regional food hubs serving 10 Oregon and 2 Washington counties. The goal is to improve local food sales and consumption by 10-20% from a 2023 baseline of 1,965 consumers and...

This $473,500 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support research at Cornell University from April 2022 through March 2025 to develop new discrete choice models that account for unobserved heterogeneity in consumer consideration sets. The researchers will establish conditions for semi-nonparametric identification of these novel models and design a maximum...

This $607,597.50 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175) aims to increase customer access and awareness for direct-to-consumer farm businesses in Northeastern Connecticut. The 3-year project, to be performed by the University of Connecticut, will enable expanded regional marketing and promotional efforts, including one-on-one technical assistance to onboard farms as SNAP...

This $250,000 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist will fund research under the Agricultural Market and Economic Research program (CFDA #10.290). Oklahoma State University will lead a consortium of universities to conduct two research projects related to market concentration and sustainability in the livestock and meat supply systems. The first project involves a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of concentration and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $272,999 in funding to Duke University to conduct research on understanding the incidence of market distortions in the U.S. economy. The project aims to develop tools to estimate various economic distortions, such as markups, markdowns, and taxes, at a highly disaggregated level and trace their impact on different households based on factors like region,...