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An Exploration of Irish Consumer Acceptance of Nanotechnology Applications in Food
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Greehy,   Grainne; McCarthy,   Mary; Henchion,   Maeve M.; Dillon,   Emma J.; McCarthy,   Sinead.
Nanotechnology has come to the attention of food stakeholders in recent years. It offers many potential benefits to food companies and consumers, for example the ability to produce healthier food without compromising taste, but it has also generated much debate, in particular about potential unknown risks associated with food applications of nanotechnology. This research provides some insights into Irish consumer acceptance of food related applications of nanotechnology and details the determining factors framing consumers’ attitudes. Key issues investigated include consumers’ awareness of and attitudes towards nanotechnology, the subjective values (including perceived risk-benefit trade-offs) that frame these attitudes and the influence of new information...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Novel food technologies; Nanotechnology; Consumer acceptance; Risk perceptions; Risk communication; Deliberative discourse; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122006

Assessing the Sustainability of Irish Farming
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dillon,   Emma J.; Hennessy,   Thia C.; Hynes,   Stephen; Commins,   Verena.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6474

Foot-and-Mouth Disease control costs compared: An Irish case study.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dillon,   Emma J.; Matthews,   Alan; Thorne,   Fiona S.
The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate alternative control strategies for a number of simulated outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in four agriculturally diverse Irish regions, examining for the first time, the potential role of emergency vaccination in the country. The recent EU Directive (2003/85/EC) on FMD control permits the use of emergency vaccination as part of an FMD control strategy. While the slaughter of infected animals and “dangerous contacts” (susceptible animals on epidemiologically linked holdings) remains the principal tool for tackling an outbreak, the potential use of vaccination as an adjunct to the basic culling policy is now being considered. Using an integrated approach, combining epidemiological and economic...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Foot-and-Mouth disease; Alternative control strategies; Transboundary animal diseases; Emergency vaccination; Livestock Production/Industries; Q1; Q17; Q58.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7969

A Cost-Effectiveness Study of Animal Disease Eradication Strategies: Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Ireland
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dillon,   Emma J.
The primary focus of this poster paper is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of alternative control strategies for a number of simulated outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) in four agriculturally diverse Irish regions, examining for the first time, the potential role of emergency vaccination in the country. With the increasing threat of transboundary animal diseases due to globalisation, wider market integration and increased animal movement it is important that such an evaluation of control and eradication strategies be undertaken and contingency plans be put in place. The new EU Directive (2003/85/EC) on FMD control permits the use of emergency vaccination as part of an FMD control strategy. The slaughter of infected animals and "dangerous...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Foot-and-Mouth disease; Control strategies; Transboundary animal diseases; Emergency vaccination; Computer simulation; Cost-effectiveness; Livestock Production/Industries; Q1; Q17; Q58.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25321

Towards Measurement of Farm Sustainability - an Irish case study
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dillon,   Emma J.; Hennessy,   Thia C.; Hynes,   Stephen.
Sustainability Indicators (economic, environmental and social) are developed here using Irish National Farm Survey (FADN) data over a ten-year period (1996-2006) in an attempt to measure the sustainability of Irish agriculture at the farm-level.  The general concept of sustainability is discussed and the development of agricultural sustainability indicators in an Irish context described.  Individual indicators are dealt with in turn and the RERC SMILE (microsimulation) model is used to demonstrate how these indicators can be mapped at electoral division level.   Economic viability was found to be generally in decline over the ten-year period examined, however, when individual farming systems were taken into account, some were found to perform better than...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sustainability Indicators; Multidimensionality; Composite Indicators; Microsimulation.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Q11 Q18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51786