Farm Advisory Services and total factor productivity growth in the Irish dairy sector

Autor: Iordanis Parikoglou, Grigorios Emvalomatis, Fiona Thorne, Michael Wallace

Publikováno v: European Review of Agricultural Economics. 50:655-682

This paper investigates the impact of the engagement of individual farmers with Farm Advisory Services (FAS) on total factor productivity (TFP) growth, as a relevant indicator of competitiveness under the vision of sustainable intensification. Using

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https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac024

Automation and efficiency: a latent class analysis of Irish dairy farms

Autor: Luis Garcia-Covarrubias, Doris Läpple, Emma Dillon, Fiona Thorne

Publikováno v: Q Open.

Automation has always played a significant role in the productivity and efficiency of agriculture. This paper explores the role of automation on farms' technical efficiency (TE) in an expanding dairy sector. We use a representative sample of Irish da

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https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoad015

An innovative food system approach to diversifying protein intake: Protein-I: Shared Island sustainable healthy nutrition

Autor: Lorraine Brennan, Aoife O'Gorman, Susanne Barth, Trevor Cadden, Moira Dean, Fiona Doohan, Maeve Henchion, Ronan McIvor, Breige McNulty, Cathal O'Donoghue, Seamus O'Reilly, Joseph Rafferty, Helen M. Roche, Fiona Thorne, Martina Wallace, David Wright, Anne P. Nugent

Publikováno v: Brennan, L, O'Gorman, A, Barth, S, Cadden, T, Dean, M, Doohan, F, Henchion, M, McIvor, R, McNulty, B, O'Donoghue, C, O'Reilly, S, Rafferty, J, Roche, H M, Thorne, F, Wallace, M, Wright, D & Nugent, A P 2022, ' An innovative food system approach to diversifying protein intake: Protein-I: Shared Island sustainable healthy nutrition ', Nutrition Bulletin, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 516-523 . https://doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12590

There is a need to transform our current food system if we are to feed the rapidly expanding global population while maintaining planetary health. Within the island of Ireland, there is an urgent need to diversify the foods that currently contribute

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Identifying the drivers and constraints to adoption of IPM among arable farmers in the UK and Ireland

Autor: Steven Kildea, Philip Jones, Richard Tranter, Stephen Jess, Fiona Burnett, Fiona Thorne, Michael Gaffney, Robbie D. Girling, Henry E. Creissen

Publikováno v: Pest Management Science. 77:4148-4158

BACKGROUND: Arable crops in temperate climatic regions such as the UK and Ireland are subject to multitude of pests (weeds, diseases and vertebrate/invertebrate pests) that can negatively impact productivity if not properly managed. Integrated pest m

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https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.6452

Measuring the unmeasurable? A method to quantify adoption of integrated pest management practices in temperate arable farming systems

Autor: Philip Jones, Richard Tranter, Stephen Jess, Robbie D. Girling, Henry E. Creissen, Fiona Thorne, Michael Gaffney, Fiona Burnett, Steven Kildea

Publikováno v: Scotland's Rural College

The impetus to adopt integrated pest management (IPM) practices has re-emerged in the last decade, mainly as a result of legislative and environmental drivers. However, a significant deficit exists in the ability to practically monitor and measure IP

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https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5428