166th Seminar, August 30-31, 2018, Galway, West of Ireland

In this paper we have taken an Innovation Systems approach to examine the structure and function of the Irish Agri-Environmental Knowledge and Innovation System with the [...]

A motivation provided for the provision of substantial agricultural subsidies to low income farmers is that it is an effective mechanisms to transfer resources into poore [...]

The economic sustainability of farm households is frequently dependent on the availability of off- farm employment. This paper uses farm-level data to examine the impact [...]

Sustainable livestock production is needed to feed the growing, wealthier and urbanizing world population. This results in a need for better genetics and a more precise w [...]

Irish beef farms have experienced poor viability longitudinally, reaching crisis levels in 2013. In response to this, beef Producer Organisation (PO) legislation was intr [...]

Introduction : Food consumption accounts for 20-30% of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. Certain foods have higher emissions than others and are often the target of pol [...]

Smaller-scale farms in the US are in a tenuous position as they face rising production costs and costs to comply with regulations. Farmland conversion is threatening the [...]

We provide a sustainability assessment of Spanish agriculture at provincial scale using a multidimensional set of indicators selected according to established frameworks [...]

Previous studies demonstrate the existence of spatial heterogeneity in the demand for ecosystem services (ES), especially by showing spatial discounting (namely, distance [...]