Graduate Student Matt Comi Awarded NSF Grant to Study Farmers’ Decisions About Technology

The National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Studies program awarded a $15,150 grant to Matt Comi's project "Exploring on-farm innovation, environmental change, and rural livelihoods in the US hop industry." A doctoral candidate in the University of Kansas Department of Sociology, Comi will explore how farmers persist — or not — in genuine decision-making about future iterations of their farms. Technology is a key part of how farmers shape their futures. It is also central to a nexus of pressures that farmers have faced since the 1980s: environmental change, biodiversity loss and rising costs.

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