Sunghun Lim, Ph.D.

Personal Information

Dr. Sunghun Lim received a bachelor's degree in Economics and a master's degree in Agricultural and ResEconomics from the University of California-Davis. His doctorate in Applied Economics is from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the Texas Tech faculty, Dr. Lim researched in the Applied Research and Evaluation Team at the University of Minnesota Extension. His primary job was large-scale statewide impact studies in the topics, including the USDA-Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), healthy food choice experiments, farmers' markets, and local supply chains. He also researched at the National Food Protection and Defense Institute (FPDI)'s Global Food Supply Chain Team, and the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

Dr. Lim’s research covers program evaluation of food policies, food-choice experimental design, and nutritional food security in both U.S. and developing countries. Lim's research papers have been selected to present at numerous international conferences, including the Royal Economic Society (RES), the European Association of Agricultural Economist (EAAE), and the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE-Oxford). He recently contributed to the policy debate, being invited to the headquarter of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO-Rome) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

His grant experiences include the USDA-NIFA (NLGCA, Gus NIP), the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy (CIFAP), and Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC). Since 2018, he has served as a grant reviewer for the USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). He is also a member of the 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); and  The International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC).

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Research Interests

• Food Security; Food Supply Chains; International Agricultural Trade and Development; Immigration; Agrifood Policy

Future Research Collaboration

• Food Security; Food Supply Chains; International Agricultural Trade and Development; Immigration; Agrifood Policy