Francisco Areal is a Professor in Economics at the Newcastle Business School, 51爆料. 听Francisco joined the Newcastle Business School in February 2023. Francisco previously worked as a Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Economics at the Centre for Rural Economy, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University from 2019 to 2023 and as听Associate Professor and Lecturer in Environmental Economics听at the University of Reading 2011-2019. Before he worked at the Joint Research Centre听鈥� Institute for Prospective Technological Studies in Seville, Spain and at the Central Science Laboratory in York (currently known as the Food and Environment Research Agency 鈥揊ERA-).
Francisco's research focuses on听the interaction between agriculture, the environment, economics听and society by developing and applying statistical and econometric methods to answer questions of policy relevance for agriculture and the environment.
Francisco is currently working on developing farm sustainability indicators; developing econometric methods to account for social connectivity (e.g. interdependence of individuals鈥� preferences)听and unobserved heterogeneity in consumer's and producer's choices.
Francisco is currently leading a WP analysing consumer preferences at UK scale, as part of SUS-Health, a UKRI awarded collaboration between Newcastle University and Queen's University Belfast, that aims to increase sustainability and healthiness of food in UK food consumption led by Prof. Lynn Frewer (Newcastle University).
Francisco is also leading a WP on Barriers and incentives linked to farmer adoption of agro-forestry practices, as part of AF Futures, a UKRI awarded project led by Prof. Lynn Frewer (Newcastle University)
Francisco has recently led a project on achieving sustainable intensification using remote sensing in China funded by Agri-Tech in China Newton Network.
Francisco has also worked on a wide number of nationally and internationally funded projects in the past including FP6-SIGMEA, FP6 CO-extra, Defra's funded Sustainable Intensification Platform, and Innovative UK funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Aramajaro, amongst others. Recently, Francisco has worked on an EU funded project, SOILCARE, leading a WP on social aspects influencing the adoption of soil-improving innovations. In this project, Francisco analysed the individual's willingness to pay for听soil quality improvement.听
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- Incorporating preference uncertainty in best worst scaling, Areal, F., Perez, R. 30 Jan 2025, In: PLoS One
- Investigating the Constraints and Mitigation Strategies for the Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Erosion-prone Areas of Southeast Nigeria, Olumba, C., Garrod, G., Areal, F. 15 Jan 2025, In: Environmental Management
- Analysis of the enabling environment for delivering land degradation neutrality in Nigeria: perspectives from the sub-national to local level, Olumba, C., Garrod, G., Areal, F. 16 Feb 2024, In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
- A systematic review of the efficacy of theories used to understand farmers鈥� technology adoption behavior in lower-to-middle-income countries, Karbo, R., Frewer, L., Areal, F., Jones, G., Nurudeen, S. 31 Dec 2024, In: Development Studies Research
- Consumer responses to plant viruses in the context of an emerging agri-food risk: a cross-country comparison, Jin, S., Yang, G., Hilaire, J., Ojo, M., Tindale, S., Areal, F., Jones, G., Frewer, L. 2024, In: Journal of Risk Research
- Heterogeneous preferences and consumer willingness to pay for vitamin D fortification of eggs, Areal, F., Asioli, D. 2 Jul 2024, In: Agribusiness
- Time Preferences, Land Tenure Security, and the Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Southeast Nigeria, Olumba, C., Garrod, G., Areal, F. 21 Feb 2024, In: Sustainability
- Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Soil Quality Protection and Improvement, Areal, F. 23 Jul 2024, In: Land
- Editorial: Evaluating the adoption and impacts of agricultural technologies, Areal, F., Pede, V. 30 Nov 2023, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
- Towards stability of food production and farm income in a variable climate, Harkness, C., Areal, F., Semenov, M., Senapati, N., Shield, I., Bishop, J. 1 Feb 2023, In: Ecological Economics
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