Selected Research Grants
Selected Research Grants
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)‐AFRI Grant: Economics, Markets, and Trade, “PARTNERSHIP: Assessing the Impact of Trade Cost Shocks on Agri‐Food Global Value Chain Integration,” 2025–2029. Total amount awarded: $650,000 (under review).
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)-AFRI Grant: Economics, Markets and Trade, “Economic Diplomacy, WTO Trade Disputes And Agri-Food Trade. Evidence From United States,” 2023-2026, PI, Amount awarded: $ 610,210.
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)-AFRI Grant: Economics, Markets and Trade, “Global Implications of the Russia-Ukraine War for Agricultural Trade and Value Chains, Commodity Prices, and Cross-border Investment,” 2023-2027, Co-PI, Amount awarded: $ 800,000.
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture Program (NLGCA), 2021-2023, Co-PI, Amount awarded: $150,000.
USDA NIFA-AFRI Conference funding for the 2022 International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), “Workshop on Transforming Agricultural Global Value Chains”, Co-PI, requested awarded: $50,000.
The International Research and Development Seed Grants, “Economic Diplomacy, WTO Trade Disputes and Agri-Food Trade between Canada and the United States,” Texas Tech University, 2021-2022, PI.
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), 2017, Invited applicant, Co-PI, Amount Requested: $2,100,000.
EDITORSHIP FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Guest Co-Editor. Special Issue Proposal for Food Policy, “Transforming Global Agri-Food Value Chains”, 2022-2024.
ACADEMIC SERVICES FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Contributor. FAO 2020 The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets. Agricultural markets and sustainable development: Global value chains, smallholder farmers and digital innovations. Rome, FAO. ISSN 2663-8207
ACADEMIC SERVICE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIETY
The 2025 Farm Foundation Agricultural Economics Fellow (Link).
President (2023 - present), USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Hatch Multistate Research Group, S1072: U.S. Agricultural Trade and Policy in a Dynamic Global Market Environment.
The US Universities Representative of the Executive Committee, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), 2025-2027.
Program Committee, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), 2024 -2026.
Topic Leader, International Development: Trade, Markets, and Policy, Service, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), Term: 2022-2023.
Organizing Committee member, 2022 International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) Annual Meeting.
2021 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting International Section Session Organizer and Moderator, “Global Agriculture in Flux: Pandemic, Trade Wars, Supply Chains, and Developing Country Markets” in August 2021.
2021 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting Selected Presentation Reviewer.
LSU AgCenter News, featured interview April 22, 2025.
Farm Foundation News, Feb. 4, 2025.
VoxEU-CEPR Column, Choi and Lim. " The political economy of trade protection: Evidence from the 2020 US presidential election," September 15, 2022.
Sputnik International, "Experts Warn About Social Unrest Amid Rising Food Prices Due to Conflict in Ukraine," featured interview, April 30, 2022.
NPR News, featured interview, Feb. 21, 2022.
AAEA Members in the News, Feb. 21, 2022.
Ag.Clips News, "How will the trucker blockades impact Canada-U.S. agribusiness trade?", Feb. 21, 2022
Brownfield AgNews, "Ag First to Take Border Trade Disruptions", Feb. 17, 2022.
Expert Pitch in Texas Tech Today, Feb. 16, 2022.
Davis College NewsCenter, Texas Tech University, Feb. 15, 2022.
Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 14, 2022.
University of Guelph News, Feb. 14, 2022.
VoxEU-CEPR Column, Lim (2020) "Structural transformation in the era of global agricultural value chains," November 6, 2021.
AAEA Members in the News, November 22, 2021
University of Minnesota News, Research Spotlight, November 23, 2021.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), featured in the Official Twitter, September 3, 2021.
CASNR NewsCenter, August 19, 2020.
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA-UC Berkeley), featured in blog post, April, 2019.
Economics That Really Matters, May 7, 2018.
2021
The International Research and Development Seed Grants, “Economic Diplomacy, WTO Trade Disputes and Agri-Food Trade between Canada and United States,” Texas Tech University, 2021-2022, PI.
2020
Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC), Malwi Priorities Research-Agricultural Trade & Agricultural Markets, reviewer
2019
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA-Atlanta), AAEA Trust Travel Grant
European Association of Agricultural Economists, Travel Grant Award (International flight and full hotel)
Agricultural Economics Society (AES), Awarded Grant
Professional Development Grant for Faculty, Augsburg University
Council of Graduate Students Professional Grant, University of Minnesota
CFANS Alumni Society Professional Development Grant, University of Minnesota
2018
ICAE Grant Award for Early Career Professionals, International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
Professional Development Grant for Faculty, Augsburg University
NAREA Scholarship, the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
CFANS Alumni Society Professional Development Grant, University of Minnesota
Research Development Funding, University of Minnesota Extension
Department Travel Grant, Department of Applied Economics
Council of Graduate Students Professional Travel Grant, University of Minnesota
Department Travel Grant, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
2017
2015
Henry A. Jastro Graduate Research Scholarship (UC-Davis)
Hemispheric Institute on the Americas HIA-Tinker Foundation Fellowship
2010
The Award of G-20 Summit 2010 Essay Contest, Korean International Trade Association
LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award, Louisiana State University, 2024.
Best Teaching Assistant Award of the 2018-19 for Ph.D. level classes, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 2019.
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Fellowship, University of California-Davis (a non-service stipend of $14,987, full tuition and health benefit for two semesters), 2015
Honors at Graduation, Department of Economics, College of Letters and Science, UC-Davis, 2013
Dean’s Honor List, College of Letters and Science, University of California-Davis, 2011-2012
First Year Scholar, College of Letters and Science, University of California-Davis, 2011
Asia Development Bank Conference on Inclusive Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific, ADB Headquarters in Manila, Philippines, July, 2024.
Research Seminar, Institute of Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), Chiba, Japan, November, 2023.
Asian Development Bank Conference (Asia's Recovery and the Future of Globalization), Tokyo, Japan, July, 2023.
Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), invited Research Seminar, Virtual, November 4, 2022.
Invited Presentation, the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Commodity & Energy Markets Association (CEMA 2022), Chicago, June 21-22, 2022
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Conference on Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains on May 20, 2021 (https://www.nber.org/conferences/risks-agricultural-supply-chains-spring-2021).
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), The FAO International Workshop, Trade and Markets Division, Rome, Italy, 2020.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Research Seminar, Kansas City, MI, January 2020.
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Preconference (Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 6), “Producers, Consumers, and Value Chains in Developing Countries”, online, March 2021.
The Global Food Symposium 2020, 24-25 April 2020, the University of Goettingen, Germany (re-scheduled).
National Bank of Ukraine (The Central Bank of Ukraine, Govt), Nov. 2021.
The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2020 (re-scheduled).
International (Non-US) Conferences
The 97th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, Warwick Univ., UK, March, 2023.
The Annual Conference of The Agricultural Economics Society, KU Leuven, Belgium, April 4-6, 2022.
3rd International Conference on Globalization and Development (Glad), Session D2-Trade, FDI and Technology, Göttingen, Germany, July 2021.
International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC)-OECD Summer Symposium, Session V: Tariffs, Agricultural Subsidies, and the 2020 US Presidential Election, Virtual Meeting, June 2021 Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES) Annual Conference, June, 2021.
The Royal Economic Society's (RES) Annual Conference, April 2021 (scheduled).
The Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) Annual Meeting, February, 2021
The Global Food Symposium 2020, 24-25 April 2020, the University of Goettingen, Germany (re-scheduled).
The FAO International Workshop, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Trade and Markets Division, Rome, Italy, 2020.
The Annual Conference of The Agricultural Economics Society (AES),
KU Leuven, Belgium, April 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19).
Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, the United Kingdom, March 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19).
The Royal Economic Society's (RES) Annual Conference, Belfast, Ireland, April 2020.
European Association of Agricultural Economists (the 190 EAAE-seminar), Montpellier, France, May 2019.
Agricultural Economics Society (AES), U of Warwick, Coventry, the United Kingdom, April 2019.
International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Vancouver, Canada, July 2018.
Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, the United Kingdom, March 2018
Australasian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society (AARES), Adelaide, Australia, February 2018
U.S. Conferences
International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, Clearwater, FL, USA, December.
Conference on Economics of Inequity in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Systems, Univ. of Minnesota, May 2023.
The 2022 Midwest International Economic Development Conference, University of Minnesota, April 1-2, 2022
International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, December 12, 2021.
Agriculture Policy Conference, Agricultural Policy Research Group (APRG), Virtual, October 2021.
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)- Austin, International Trade Session, Austin, TX, Aug. 2021.
Selected Job Market Paper Session, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), International Section, Atlanta, GA, July 2019 (Note: scheduled)
Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev), Agriculture Section Los Angeles, CA 2019
Western Education and Research Activities (WERA-72), Fargo, ND June 2019
Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA), Philadelphia, PA, June 2018
Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MIEDC), Minneapolis, MN April 2018
Invited Research Seminar, University of Guelph, Canada, April, 2023.
Invited Research Seminar, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Virginia Tech University, April 13, 2022.
Invited Research Seminar, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Connecticut, April 15, 2022
Research Seminar, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, September 2021.
The Graduate School Seminar in the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Korea University, South Korea, July 2021.
Research Seminar, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Seoul National University, South Korea, November, 2020
Research Seminar, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University, TX, January 2020.
Research Seminar, Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, Starkvile, MS, February 2020.
The Economic Journal (1); American Journal of Agricultural Economics (7); Food Policy (3); Economic Development and Cultural Change (1); Economics Letters (1); European Review of Agricultural Economics (1); World Development (1); Applied Economics (1); EconomiA (1); Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (4); Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2); Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2); Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (1); International Food and Agribusiness Management Review (2); Agribusiness: An International Journal (4); Review of Development Economics (1); Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies (1); International Economic Journal (1); USDA ERS Economic Information Bulletin series (3); Agricultura Finance Review (2); Food Security (1); Agricultural & Environmental Letters (1); Western Economics Forum (1); Sustainability (1)
USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)-Local Food Promotion Program, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)- Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP), 2021, 2022
USDA-Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS)-Specialty Crop Multi-State Program (SCMP), 2019, 2022
USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)-Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion (FMLFP), 2018, 2019
The International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) [Link]
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES)
European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE)
Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA)
Agricultural Economics Society (AES)