Michele McCormack
Research OfficerResearch Interests
I am the Socio-Economic researcher with the Teagasc Agricultural Catchments Programme. The ACP integrates biophysical and socio-economic elements to evaluate the impacts of the EU Nitrates Directive. The socio-economic research aims to provide information on, and analysis of, the socio-economic impact of implementing the measures contained in the Nitrates Action plan, which is Ireland’s road map for reaching the targets set out in the Nitrates directive. This work has a particular emphasis on the attitudes of farmers within the ACP towards measures used to address water pollution and the economic impact of changing agricultural practices to comply with the measures.
Research Interests:
- Environmental economics
- Agricultural economics
- Agricultural sustainability
- Agricultural productivity
Education
- PhD Agricultural Economics NUIG 2016
- M.A Environmental Economics NUIG 2013
- H. Dip Ed NUIG 2008
- B.A NUIG 2006
McCormack, M., et al. (2021). "Using a Technology Acceptance Model to investigate what factors influence farmer adoption of a nutrient management plan." Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 60(1), pp.142-151
http://hdl.handle.net/11019/2757
McCormack, M., Thorne, F. and Hanrahan, K., 2020. Measuring total factor productivity on Irish dairy farms. Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 59(1), pp.123-139.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27041761#metadata_info_tab_contents
Kaiser, A., Schaffer, A., McCormack, M. and Buckley, C., 2020. Accounting for Undesirable Outputs in Irish Agricultural Productivity: A Non-Parametric Index Approach. Journal of Applied Business & Economics, 22(6).
Mellander, P.E., Lynch, M.B., Galloway, J., Žurovec, O., McCormack, M., O’Neill, M., Hawtree, D. and Burgess, E., 2022. Benchmarking a decade of holistic agro-environmental studies within the Agricultural Catchments Programme.
McCormack, M.A. and O'Donoghue, C., 2014. Policy incentives as behavioural drivers of beef enterprises in Ireland: where are the kinks? (No. 727-2016-50185).
Ryan, M., McCormack, M., O’Donoghue, C. and Upton, V., 2014. The role of subsidy payments in the uptake of forestry by the typical cattle farmer in Ireland from 1984 to 2012. Irish Forestry.
“The Economics of Catchment Science” Signpost Series