Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Agriculture"

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    • Agricultural head rents, pre-famine and post-famine 

      Grada, CO (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      'No country can ever be held in just estimation', proclaimed Arthur Young in 1780, 'when the rental of it is unknown': and Young , in his Tour in Ireland, proceeded to estimate the rental of this country. His was the ...

    • Farm forestry investment in Ireland under uncertainty 

      Wiemers, Emily; Behan, Jasmina (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      This paper develops a model to explain farmers? decision to move from agricultural activities to forestry. Farmers in Ireland have strong links with land and are reluctant to enter into forestry even when the returns from ...

    • Technical change and efficiency in Irish agriculture 

      O'Neill, Suzanne; Matthews, Alan (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)
      This paper calculates average technical efficiency levels and rates of technical change for Irish agriculture using an unbalanced panel of 2,603 farms drawn from the Irish National Farm Survey over the period 1984 to 1998. ...