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Citations
5817
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2096
National Ranking
247

Overview

Andrew Barnes is affiliated with Scotland's Rural College in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a specific focus on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Rural Development and Sustainability
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Agroforestry and Silvopastoral Systems

Andrew Barnes has contributed articles to multiple scientific journals, notably publishing frequently in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Land Use Policy
  • EuroChoices
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Barnes include:

  • Finding the ecological farmer: A farmer typology to understand ecological practice adoption within Europe, 2022, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
  • Food System Resilience: Concepts, Issues, and Challenges, 2022, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture?, 2022, Land Use Policy
  • In pursuit of a better world: crop improvement and the CGIAR, 2021, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Increasing the adoption intensity of sustainable agricultural practices in Europe: Farm and practice level insights, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management

Among frequent coauthors are researchers who have collaborated with Barnes multiple times. These include:

  • Luiza Toma
  • Bethan Thompson
  • Jana Kholová
  • Milan O. Urban
  • James H. Cock

Best Publications

  • Precision Agriculture Technologies Positively Contributing to GHG Emissions Mitigation, Farm Productivity and Economics

    Athanasios Balafoutis;Bert Beck;Spyros Fountas;Jurgen Vangeyte

  • Exploring the adoption of precision agricultural technologies: A cross regional study of EU farmers

    A.P. Barnes;I. Soto;V. Eory;B. Beck

  • Farmers’ perceptions of climate change: identifying types

    John Hyland;Davey L Jones;Karen Anne Parkhill;Andrew P. Barnes

  • A typology of dairy farmer perceptions towards climate change

    Andrew P. Barnes;Luiza Toma

  • Developing greenhouse gas marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural emissions from crops and soils in the UK

    Michael MacLeod;Dominic Moran;Vera Eory;R.M. Rees

  • Understanding farmers’ intentions to follow a nutrient management plan using the theory of planned behaviour

    Amar Daxini;Amar Daxini;Amar Daxini;Mary Ryan;Cathal O’Donoghue;Andrew P. Barnes

  • Which factors influence farmers’ intentions to adopt nutrient management planning?

    Amar Daxini;Amar Daxini;Amar Daxini;Cathal O'Donoghue;Mary Ryan;Cathal Buckley

  • Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for UK Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Dominic Moran;Michael J. MacLeod;Eileen Wall;Vera Eory

  • Integrated farm management for sustainable agriculture: Lessons for knowledge exchange and policy

    David C. Rose;William J. Sutherland;Andrew P. Barnes;Fiona Borthwick

  • The influence of diversification on long-term viability of the agricultural sector

    A.P. Barnes;H. Hansson;G. Manevska-Tasevska;S.S. Shrestha

  • Farmers and Climate Change: A Cross-National Comparison of Beliefs and Risk Perceptions in High-Income Countries

    Linda S. Prokopy;J. G. Arbuckle;Andrew P. Barnes;V. R. Haden

  • Does multi-functionality affect technical efficiency? A non-parametric analysis of the Scottish dairy industry.

    A.P. Barnes

  • Refining perception-based farmer typologies with the analysis of past census data

    E. E. Guillem;A. P. Barnes;M. D. A. Rounsevell;Alan Renwick

  • Greenhouse gas emissions and the technical efficiency of dairy farmers

    O.K. Shortall;A.P. Barnes

  • Comparing a 'budge' to a 'nudge': farmer responses to voluntary and compulsory compliance in a water quality management regime

    A P Barnes;L Toma;Joyce Willock;C Hall

  • Influencing factors and incentives on the intention to adopt precision agricultural technologies within arable farming systems

    Andrew Barnes;Iria De Soto;Vera Eory;Bert Beck

  • Study on Employment in Rural Areas

    Andrew K Copus;Andrew Barnes;Graham Dalton

  • Farmer perspectives and practices regarding water pollution control programmes in Scotland.

    Andrew Barnes;J. Willock;Clifford Hall;L. Toma

  • Utilising a farmer typology to understand farmer behaviour towards water quality management: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones in Scotland

    A P Barnes;Joyce Willock;L Toma;C Hall

  • Lysine Supply Is a Critical Factor in Achieving Sustainable Global Protein Economy

    Ilkka Leinonen;Pietro P. M. Iannetta;Robert M. Rees;Wendy Russell

  • Technical Efficiency Estimates of Scottish Agriculture: A Note

    Andrew Barnes

  • An investigation into climate change scepticism among farmers

    Md. Mofakkarul Islam;Andrew Barnes;Luiza Toma

  • Heterogeneity in climate change risk perception amongst dairy farmers: a latent class clustering analysis

    A.P. Barnes;Md.M. Islam;L. Toma

  • UK marginal abatement cost curves for the agriculture and land use, land-use change and forestry sectors out to 2022, with qualitative analysis of options to 2050: Final Report to the Committee on Climate Change

    D Moran;M MacLeod;E Wall;V Eory

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominic Moran
Dominic Moran University of Edinburgh
Eileen Wall
Eileen Wall Scotland's Rural College
Robert M. Rees
Robert M. Rees Scotland's Rural College
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Robin Matthews
Robin Matthews James Hutton Institute
Mikhail A. Semenov
Mikhail A. Semenov Rothamsted Research
Bruce D.L. Fitt
Bruce D.L. Fitt University of Hertfordshire
Ingrid Öborn
Ingrid Öborn Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Christine A. Watson
Christine A. Watson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Alistair W. Stott
Alistair W. Stott Scotland's Rural College

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