student on campus

Dr. Kofi Britwum
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture

Contact Information
202O Farrell Westbrook Complex
Telephone: 615-963-1498
kbritwum@tnstate.edu


Research Areas
Food Marketing and Economics
Novel Food Adoption
Consumer Behavior and Food Choice
Economics of Food Safety

Peer Reviewed Publications
Britwum, K. and Demont, M., 2021. Tailoring rice varieties to consumer preferences induced by cultural and colonial heritage: Lessons from New Rice for Africa (NERICA) in The Gambia. Outlook on Agriculture, 50(3): 305–314.

Britwum, K. and Demont, M., 2021. Trading off consumer preferences induced by cultural and colonial heritage: Lessons from New Rice for Africa (NERICA) in Casamance, Senegal. Q Open, 1(2): qoab014.

Britwum K., J. C. Bernard and S. E. Albrecht. 2021. Does importance influence confidence in organic food attributes? Food Quality and Preference 87: 104056.

Britwum K., E. S. Owusu, and M. Demont. 2020. Confronting genetic gains with markets: Retrospective lessons from New Rice for Africa (NERICA) in Uganda. Outlook on Agriculture 49(4): 298 – 310.

Rickard L., K. Britwum, C. L. Noblet, and K. Evans. 2020. Factory-made or farm-fresh? Measuring U.S. support for aquaculture as food technology. Marine Policy 115: 103858. 

Britwum K., and A. Yiannaka. 2019. Shaping food safety perceptions: The role of message framing and issue involvement. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 81: 139-151.

Britwum K., A. Yiannaka, and K. Kastanek. 2018. Public perceptions of genetically engineered nutraceuticals. AgBioForum 21(1): 1-12.

Britwum K., and A. Yiannaka. 2019. Consumer willingness to pay for beef safety interventions: The role of message framing and issue involvement. Food Policy 86: 101726.

Britwum K., and A. Yiannaka. 2019. Labeling Food Safety Interventions: To inform or not to inform?  Agricultural and Food Economics 7(1): 4.

Britwum K., and J. C. Bernard. 2018. A field experiment on consumer willingness to accept milk that may have come from cloned cows. Food Policy 74: 1-8.


Teaching
AGSC 3000: Agricultural Marketing
AGSC 3130: Introduction to Applied Statistics
AGSC 5014: Food Marketing and Retail Management
AGSC 4040: World Agriculture
AGSC 3130: Sample Survey Theory
AGSC 3010: Farm Management
AGSC 4710/4720: Undergraduate Research Seminar

Honors and Awards
2019 Best Conference Paper Award: Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA). 

2017/2018 Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation (University-wide) Award; In Recognition of Outstanding Research and Creative Accomplishments at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

2017/2018 Hassler Dissertation Award; In Recognition of Outstanding Research Accomplishments as a graduate student in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

2016/2017 Tomek Outstanding Ph.D. Student; In Recognition of Outstanding Performance as Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

2017 Best Graduate Student Representative; University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Graduate Student Assembly.

Education
PhD, Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MS, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Delaware
BS, Agricultural Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana