Selected presentations from the programme are available to download.
Click on the link to the relevant paper title in the programme below
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09.00 |
Registration and Tea/Coffee |
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09.30 |
Contributed Paper Session 1 (2 parallel sessions) |
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Consumer Behaviour |
Chair: Maeve Henchion |
Price search in the grocery market |
Alan Collins, Ella Kavanagh, James Cronin and Richard George |
Using best-worst scaling to assess who consumers trust: do processing strategies matter? |
Danny Campbell and Seda Erdem |
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Mind the gap: intention to behaviour, the challenge in confectionery consumption |
Paul Naughton, Sinéad McCarthy and Mary McCarthy |
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Decision-Making on the Farm |
Chair: Michael Wallace |
Economic and behavioural factors motivating private afforestation decisions in Ireland |
Herath Vidyaratne, Mary Ryan, Stephen O’Neill, Nuala Ni Fhlatharta and Srinivas Raghavendra |
Neighbourhood influence on the adoption of organic farming |
Doris Läpple and Hugh Kelley |
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An examination of computer usage on farms using Teagasc National Farm Survey data |
Thia Hennessy and Brian Moran |
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10.40 |
Tea/Coffee Break |
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11.05 |
Chair: David Stead |
Plenary Session 1: Presentation of AESI Honorary Life Memberships &
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Ann Derwin (AESI President)
Brendan Riordan |
11.50 |
Contributed Paper Session 2 (2 parallel sessions) |
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Decision-Making and Adoption |
Chair: Doris Läpple |
An investigation of the participation decision in the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS): a conditional logit approach using simulated counterfactual data for farmers |
Geraldine Murphy, Cathal O’Donoghue, Stephen Hynes and Eithne Murphy |
Eliciting individuals’ risk perceptions using best worst scaling
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Seda Erdem and Dan Rigby |
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Uptake and benefits of Profit Monitor use on Irish farms |
James Breen, Alan Dillon, Thia Hennessy and Fintan Phelan |
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Agricultural Policy |
Chair: Kevin Hanrahan |
Alan Matthews |
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Do decoupled payments affect farm investment financing constraints? Evidence from Ireland |
Conor O’Toole and Thia Hennessy |
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The effect of policy changes on volatility in dairy markets |
Eoin Kelly, Declan O’Connor and Michael Keane |
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13.00 |
Lunch (in Centurion Bar) |
14.00 |
Contributed Paper Session 3 (3 parallel sessions) |
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Natural Resource Use |
Chair: Danny Campbell |
Nutrient budgeting at farm level – eco-efficiency of specialist dairy farms |
Cathal Buckley, David Wall and Paul Murphy |
John Curtis and Edgar Morgenroth |
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A spatial model of afforestation in Ireland |
Vincent Upton, Cathal O’Donoghue and Mary Ryan |
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Farm Economics |
Chair: Eoin Kelly |
Identifying determinants of efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis for Irish suckler beef farms |
Eoghan Finneran and Paul Crosson |
Modelling compensatory growth using the Grange Dairy Beef Systems Model |
Austen Ashfield, Paul Crosson, Michael Wallace and Mark McGee |
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Assessing the role of incentives in the economic returns to discussion group membership |
Thia Hennessy and Doris Läpple |
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Innovation and Food |
Chair: Emma Dillon |
Innovation and skills: implications for the agri-food sector in Northern Ireland |
Claire Jack, Duncan Anderson and Niamh Connolly |
Exploring the role of intermediaries in the innovation networks |
Hatice Beste Yildiz, Maeve Henchion and Nola Hewitt-Dundas |
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Attitudes towards healthy eating; profiling the health oriented consumer in a representative sample of Irish adults |
Paul Naughton, Sinéad McCarthy and Mary McCarthy |
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15.10 |
Tea/Coffee Break |
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15.30 |
Plenary Session 2: CAP Reform
& Panel discussion from an island of Ireland perspective:Kevin Hanrahan (Teagasc), Rowena Dwyer (IFA), Myles Patton (AFBI)(followed by general discussion)
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17.00 |
Close |