UNCW Researcher Part of NSF Grant to Explore Economics of Sustainable Coffee

UNCW Economics Professor Peter Schuhmann has been awarded $55,278 as part of a more than $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate a new sustainable system for coffee cultivation.  The grant, “GCR: Collaborative Research: Designing a Sustainable Agriculture Production System through Convergence Research Using a Multi-Scale Ecosystems Approach,” is funded for two years with an additional three years possible. It is part of the NSF’s support of convergence research, which brings together knowledge, methods and expertise from different disciplines to solve complicated societal problems. Read more here.