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Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland (AESI) Annual Conference Thursday 7th November 2013 Venue: Ashtown Food Research Centre, Teagasc, Ashtown, Dublin 15
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09.00	Registration and Tea/Coffee
09.30	Invited Paper Session 1
		A review of future prospects for dairying	Prof. Michael Keane (University College Cork)
10.05	Contributed Paper Session 1 (2 parallel sessions)
		Sustainability in the Irish dairy sector	Thia Hennessy, Emma Dillon, Trevor Donnellan, Brian Moran and Mary Ryan.
		A comparison of dairy production systems in Ireland and Northern Ireland	Patrick R. Gillespie and Cathal O’Donoghue.
		Spatial population and employment growth in rural Northern Ireland	Myles Patton and Siyi Feng.
		The redistributive impact of EU farm payment reforms in the UK and Ireland	Stephen O'Neill, Stephen Hynes, Cathal O’Donoghue and Kevin Hanrahan.
		Spatial dependence in the adoption of organic drystock farming in Ireland	Doris Läpple and Hugh Kelley
11.15	Tea/Coffee
11.30	Contributed Paper Session 2 (2 parallel sessions)
		Analysing benefits accruing from the EU Water Framework Directive using a spatial microsimulation approach	Stephen Hynes and Cathal O'Donoghue.
		An analysis of the capitalisation of CAP payments into land rental rates in Ireland	Stephen O'Neill and Kevin Hanrahan
		Agri-food expansion and climate policy constraints: quantifying the trade-off in Ireland	Ana Corina Miller, Trevor Donnellan, Alan Matthews, Kevin Hanrahan and Cathal O’Donoghue.
		The relationship between governance and performance: Implications for network formation and management	Douglas Sorenson and Maeve Henchion
		What do we know about retailer pricing behaviours?	Chenguang Li and Richard Volpe
12.40	Invited Paper Session 2
		Perspectives on Agriculture in Ireland and Scotland	Prof. Alan Renwick (University College Dublin)
13.15		Lunch
13.45	Early Career Researcher Session 1
		Optical remote sensing of Irish forest disturbance: challenges and proposed methodologies	Guy Serbin and Stuart Green
		Responding to change: medieval and early modern agricultural systems and landscapes in Ireland, c.1100– 1800 AD	Michael Corcoran
		Economic performance of towns in Ireland	Cathal Geoghegan and Cathal O’Donoghue.
14.30	Early Career Researcher Session 2
		An examination of the effects of personal characteristics on farm productivity	Clare Faulkner and Michael Mulreany
		Young farmer innovation practices for agricultural and rural development	Jessica McKillop, Kevin Heanue and Jim Kinsella
		Policy Incentives as Behavioural Drivers of Beef Enterprises in Ireland: Where are the Kinks?	Michele McCormack and Cathal O’Donoghue.
	Tea/Coffee
		Grass utilisation as a driver of efficiency on European dairy farms	Patrick R. Gillespie, Cathal O’Donoghue, Thia Hennessy, Stephen Hynes, and Fiona Thorne
		Diffusion of an Innovative Land Use – Private afforestation in Ireland between 1990 and 2012	Conor Lynch, David Meredith, Maarten Nieuwenhuis and Tamara Hochstrasser
		Stimulating innovation in the Irish dairy sector: the design of systemic Instruments	Christina Ryan and Kevin Heanue
16.40	Contributed Paper Session 3 (2 parallel sessions)
		GMO regulation in Europe: a policy coherence for development issue	Alan Matthews
		An economic cost-benefit analysis of GM potato cultivation in Ireland	Fiona Thorne, Sinéad Phelan and Ewen Mullins
		Evaluating the economic impact of converting land from agriculture to forestry in Ireland using the forest investment and valuation estimator (FIVE)	Mary Ryan, Cathal O’Donoghue, Vincent Upton, Henry Phillips and Niall Farrelly
		The value of forests and afforestation for recreation in Ireland	Vincent Upton, Mary Ryan and Cathal O’Donoghue
17.30	Presentation of Early Career Researcher Prizes

How to Find The Venue

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Directions:

The Teagasc Food Research Centre is 5 minutes walk from Ashtown train station, 15 minutes taxi journey from Heuston Station and 30 minutes from Dublin Airport

By bus: the 39, 39A and the 37 buses depart from Aston Quay in the city centre, to the bus stop at The Halfway House Pub, which is a 15 minute walk to the TFRC. The 120 bus leaves Parnell Street in the city centre, to the River Road, which is a 5 minute walk to the TFRC.

Driving:

M50 – Take the Blanchardstown exit and keep right and follow signs for city centre.
Continue until you reach the Navan Road.
At second round-about on Navan Road there is a pub called The Halfway House, take a left and continue over Ashtown level crossing until you reach a cross roads.
Go through cross roads and the Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown is 300m on the left hand side.

Agricultural Economics Society of Ireland (AESI) Annual Conference Thursday 7th November 2013

How to Find The Venue