Funding, Contracts & Consulting

Selected externally funded research and professional engagements across climate, agricultural productivity, behavioral economics, livestock systems, development evaluation, and public policy.

Consulting & contracts

2024–2025 · Inter-American Development Bank

Agricultural Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: What We Know and Where We Are Heading.

2014 · World Bank

Input to ESW Improving Agricultural Water Productivity and Beyond: What Are the Options?

2014–2015 · Inter-American Development Bank

Data quality assessment and research on agricultural productivity growth, climate, convergence, forecasting, and policy.

Awards & honors

Faculty Innovator Award

National Center for Atmospheric Research / National Science Foundation, 2021

Outstanding Young Professional Award

COSBAE-AAEA, 2019

Fulbright-LASPAU Scholarship & Cooperative Research Award

2009–2010

Funding, Contracts & Consulting

Sponsored research

Ecological Resilience and Extreme Weather Events: Impacts on Farmers, Landowners and Communities.

Partnership to Improve Beef Cow-Calf Development and Management in North Florida: Focusing on Limited-Resource Beef Cow-Calf Producers.

Building Research and Education Capacity by Creating the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economics in Agribusiness (CBEEA).

Climate Change, Adaptation, and Welfare Implications: A Study of US Agriculture.

Development of Innovative and Biologically Based Integrated Pest Management for Industrial Hemp Production: Enhanced Cost-Effectiveness.

How Does a Changing Climate Affect Agricultural Productivity, Markets, and Trade?

Productivity Gaps among Farmers in the United States: Do Social Disadvantages Play a Role?

E-commerce Applications in the Developing World.

Bioactivity-Guided Discovery of Effective Anticancer and Antioxidant Compounds in Muscadine Grapes.

Increasing Cattle Beef Production and Profitability in Indian River County in Florida through Silvopasture Practices: Economic and Financial Analyses.

Impact Evaluation of the Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) Program in Zimbabwe.