School of Agriculture & Food Science UCD
College of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine
University College Dublin

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Dr James Breen Lecturer/Assistant Professor, School of Agriculture and Food Science   Address School of Agriculture and Food Science University College Dublin Agriculture and Food Science Belfield Dublin 4   Overview James Breen is Lecturer in Agricultural and Food Economics at UCD. He completed his BAgrSc in Agribusiness and Rural Development at UCD in 1999 and his MSc in Agricultural Science at UCD in 2001. He completed his PhD in Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri in 2011. Prior to taking up this appointment in May 2011, he was a research officer in the Rural Economy and Development Programme in Teagasc. His research interests are predominantly in the area of farm-level modelling and specifically in the examination of the impact of alternative agricultural and environmental policies on Irish farmers. He has worked extensively with micro data from the Teagasc National Farm Survey to examine those factors which impact on farm performance and profitability. He is currently joint Programme Director of the Masters in Food Business Strategy, which is offered jointly by the School of Agriculture and Food Science, UCD and the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD.   Education Degrees BAgrSc University College Dublin MAgrSc University College Dublin PhD Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri   Research Supervision Supervised 5 PhD students to completion as well as 8 Masters students to completion   Research Grants Total grant awards of €1,635,120 since 2011, notable grants include   Teagasc, Co-definition and evaluation of sustainable beef systems using feed resources not edible by humans, €88,000 The Irish Farmers Association, The Development of Decision Making Tools for Farmers in Water Quality and Silage Quality Analysis, €39,725 Dept. Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM), Co-definition and evaluation of SUSTAINable BEEF farming systems based on resources non edible by humans SUSTAINBEEF, €16,625 Dept. Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM), Enhancement of CAPRI modelling with specific focus on its environmental and economic analytical capacity for Ireland (CAPRI-Green), €349,459 Teagasc, Assessing farmers’ perception of greenhouse gas (GHG) Emissions and developing effective KT interventions to support practice change and emissions reductions, €38,500 Teagasc, Development of farm level Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC) curves for green house gas (GHG) abatement technologies, €84,000 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Factors Affecting the Adoption of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Abatement Technologies on Irish Farms, €73,495   Publications Tzemi, D. and Breen. J. (2019) Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of urease inhibitors: A farm level analysis. Ecological Modelling, 394.24 18-26 Tzemi, D. and Breen. J. Socio-economic factors affecting the adoption of GHG emission abatement practices; the case of spring slurry spreading. International Journal of Agricultural Management forthcoming Hanrahan, L., Tuohy, P., McHugh, N., O’Loughlin, J., Moran, B., Dillon, P., Breen, J., Wallace, W., and Shalloo, L. A description and evaluation of the physical and financial characteristics of dairy farms operating on soil types classified as poorly drained and associated with high rainfall. Grass and Forage Science, forthcoming Martinez Cillero, M., Thorne, F., Wallace, M., Breen, J., and Hennessey, T. (2018). Technology heterogeneity and policy change in farm-level efficiency analysis: an application to the Irish beef sector. European Review of Agricultural Economics forthcoming. Martinez Cillero, M., Thorne, F., Wallace, M., Breen, J., and Hennessey, T. (2018). The Effects of Direct Payments on Technical Efficiency of Irish Beef Farms: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis (2018). Journal of Agricultural Economics, 69(3), 669-687. doi:10.1111/1477-9552.12259 Tzemi, D. and Breen. J. Climate change and the agricultural sector in Ireland: examining farmer awareness and willingness to adopt new advisory mitigation tools. Climate Policy forthcoming. doi:10.1080/14693062.2018.1546163 Chiodi, A., Donnellan, T., Breen, J., Deane, P., Hanrahan, K., Gargiulo, M., & Ó Gallachóir, B. P. (2016). Integrating agriculture and energy to assess GHG emissions reduction: a methodological approach. Climate Policy, 16(2), 215-236. doi:10.1080/14693062.2014.993579 Donnellan, T., Hanrahan, K., & Breen, J. P. (2014). Development and Application of Economic and Environmental Models of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: Some Difficult Choices for Policy Makers. In Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy (pp. 243-263). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06635-6_13 Clancy, D., Breen, J., Morrissey, K., O’Donoghue, C. and Thorne, F. (2013). The location economics of biomass production for electricity generation. In Advances in Spatial Science (Vol. 71, pp. 159-175). doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30026-4_9 Clancy, D., Breen, J., Thorne, F. and Wallace, M. A stochastic analysis of the decision to produce biomass crops in Ireland (2012). Biomass and Bioenergy, 46, 353-365. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.08.005 Clancy, D., Breen, J., Thorne, F. and Wallace, M. (2012) The influence of a Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff on the decision to produce biomass crops in Ireland. Energy Policy, 41(2), 412-421. Howley, P., Breen, J.,  O’Donoghue, C. and Hennessey, T. (2012) Does the single farm payment affect farmers' behaviour? A macro and micro analysis (2012). International Journal of Agricultural Management, 2(1), 57-64.