Awards, Publications, and More

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Awards and Grants

Dr. Greg Fonsah in collaboration with Texas A&M Agrilife Research were awarded over a 5,000,000 dollar grant from USDA National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA), "Ensuring Future Economic Viability of US short-day Onion Production Through Mechanical Harvesting".

Dr. Greg Fonsah was also selected as the awardee for the 2023 Frank Panyko Distinguished Service Award, given annually by the Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS).

Dr. Greg Fonsah will serve as the President and/or Chairman of the S-1088 Multistate Research Project/group entitled, "Specialty Crops and Food Systems: Exploring Markets, Supply Chains, and Policy Dimensions."

Dr. Craig Landry in collaboration with 15 other institutions were awarded $6.7 million from NOAA"S National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Effects of Sea Level Rise (ERLR) Program to be spent on 18 coastal resillence research projects across the nation.

Dr. John Salazar received the Louis Griffin Hospitality Leadership Award last month at the Visit Athens GA annual meeting.

Dr. Lusi Xie's Ph.D. thesis, "Three Essays on Behavior, Incentives, Environmental Valuation, and Contributions to Conservation," won the 2023 Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award

Swaty Kajaria, Ph.D. student, received 3rd place in the UGA Poster Competition Confluence: UGA Water Science and Policy Poster Symposium held on October 20, 2023. Her poster topic: Let 'Em Grow: Do Florida Coastal Property Owners Value Mangroves?"

Recent Publications

Goswami, A., B. Karali, and M.K. Adjemian. 2023. "Hedging with Futures during Nonconvergence in Commodity Markets." Journal of Commodity Markets 32 (December 2023):100364.

Escalante, C. L., Gao, P., & Secor, W. “Loan packaging decisions for beginning African American and other socially disadvantaged farmers.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology (2023), 00, 1-18.

Escalante, C.L., W.L. Cowart, and V.P. Shonkwiler. “Coping with Delayed H-2A Worker Arrivals during the Pandemic.” Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. 86,1 (2023): 15-20.
(Selected as one of three papers to be featured in the 2023 Annual Conference of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers in Nashville, TN in November 2023.)

Luo, T. and C.L. Escalante. “Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants and Post-mortem Organ Donation.” Economica, Forthcoming in 2023.

Hashida, Y., Steven J. Dundas (2023), "The effects of a voluntary property buyout and acquisition program on coastal housing markets: Evidence from New York." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 121, ISSN 0095-0696

Hashida, Y., and Steven J.Dundas (2023), "Barriers to Managed Retreat Policy Uptake in Coastal Areas: Evidence from New Jersey’s Blue Acres Program." Marine Resource Economics Forthcoming (accepted 16 September 2023)

Smith, T.A., Valizadeh, P. (2023). "Aging out of WIC and Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design." American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Smith, T.A., Gregory, C. (2023). "Food Insecurity in the United States: Measurement, Economic Modeling, and Food Assistance Effectiveness" Annual Review of Resource Economics

Summer School Opportunity

Fourth-year Ph.D. student Samyam Shrestha recently participated in the Economics of Migration Summer School held in Mexico City, organized by the UC Davis Global Migration Center in collaboration with UC Alianza MX. This four-day summer school included lectures from prominent scholars in the field of economics of migration, including Giovanni Peri (UC Davis), Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (UC Merced), Santiago Perez (UC Davis), and Gaurav Khanna (UC San Diego). Shrestha was among 23 Ph.D. students and postdocs that were selected to attend this event.

“It was a wonderful opportunity to learn from the lectures, establish a network with professors and fellow Ph.D. students, and get feedback on my research ideas,” shared Shrestha. “Mexico is always in the spotlight concerning immigration to the United States. Numerous sectors like agriculture, construction, and household care rely heavily on Mexican migrants, many of whom are undocumented. Recent economic studies show that immigration policies restricting the stay and work of undocumented migrants in the U.S. have unintended consequences on U.S. businesses, but such policies also may adversely affect the employment and wages of U.S.-born individuals. In agriculture, specifically, there is a shortage of local, seasonal farm workers, which is a growing concern for fruits, vegetables, and horticulture farmers.”

In his doctoral dissertation, Shrestha is investigating the impacts of immigration enforcement policies on outcomes such as entrepreneurship and trade. Additionally, he is exploring other topics related to U.S. farm labor and labor economics in general. “But the summer school was not limited to Mexico-to-U.S. migration. It also covered subjects like the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, high-skill immigration and its effects in the origin countries, etc. with illustrative examples from different parts of the world.” The four-day summer school concluded with a panel discussion featuring scholars from Mexico who discussed the future of Mexican migration to the United States.

Technical Report

CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere); "Growth is not enough: Solving the Global Hunger Crisis Requires Investments in Gender Equality," Florence Santos (MS Ag Econ UGA 2010), Yingxin Zhang, Cesar Escalante, and Emily Janoch.