AESI Student Awards Day 2009 Presentations

Chairperson:  Daragh Clancy (RERC)

10:00               Geraldine Murphy (RERC/NUIG)

Farmer Participation in the Rural Environment Protection Scheme.

10:15               Pamela Murphy (Ashtown/TCD)

An Empirical Analysis of Demand and Demographics for Healthy Eating in Ireland categorised using the Food Pyramid.  A Censored Regression Approach.

10:30               David Loughran (RERC/UCD)

The Economics of GM Potato Crop Production: An Irish Case Study.

10:45               Ana Corina Miller (RERC/TCD)

Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix with focus on the Agri-Food sectors – The Case of Ireland.

11:00               Ronan Waters (RERC/NUIG)

                                 The Micro-Economics of Beef.

11:15               Aksana Chyzheuskaya (RERC/NUIG)

Water Framework Directive

11:30               Erin Smith-Mininhan (RERC/QUB)

The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Changing Energy Prices on the Food Supply Chain in Northern Ireland.

11:45               Mary Delaney (UCC)

A qualitative study examining food choice in older Irish adults using the life course perspective.

12:00               Grainne Kavanagh (Ashtown/UCC/DIT)

A study of the factors that influence investment in novel technologies by food  enterprises.

12:15               Paul Naughton (Ashtown/UCC)

                        Healthy Eating and Consumers’ Food Related Beliefs.

12:30               Cathal Murphy (Ashtown/UCC/DIT)

                        Animal Cloning and the Food Chain: Irish Stakeholders’ Perspectives.

12:45 – 13:30              Lunch – Served in the Canteen

Chairperson:  Dr. Peter Howley (RERC)

13:30                Aisling Moroney (UCC)

An Examination of Effective Structures for Farmers’ Markets in Ireland.

13:55               Stephen O’Neill (RERC/NUIG)

Exploring the land market participation decisions of Irish farmers.

14:20               Edel Doherty (RERC/NUIG)

Using Discrete Choice Experiments to elicit preferences for walking trails on farmland in Ireland.

14:45               Dois Läpple (RERC/NUIG)

Identifying and understanding factors influencing the intention to convert to organic drystock farming.

15:10               Tea/Coffee break       

15:30               Santosh Joshi (RERC/NUIG)

Analysing the sensitivity of pattern of trade to functional form choice.

15:55               Paul Smyth (RERC/UCD)

                        Examining the relationship between production costs and managerial ability using Irish dairy farm data.