Ourania Tremma

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University College Dublin

A common form of cooperation in rural areas corresponds to informal alliances in which farmers save productive costs, for example, by sharing inputs, machinery, and information. By reducing costs cooperatively, these alliances contribute to agricultural land management by increasing efficiency. Despite the benefits, these alliances are typically fo...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the price transmission (PT) process between producers and retailers, in the UK liquid milk (LM) sector and to explore possible asymmetries within this mechanism. This was pursued using monthly, producer and retail price time series data, for the period 01/2000-01/2023. The methodology employed consisted of the no...

The study set out to investigate factors affecting consumers’ ethical perception and willingness to pay for Fairtrade bananas during the cost-of-living crisis in the UK. A survey was distributed via social media resulting in 357 valid responses which were analyzed using IBM-SPSS-28. The main influencing factors on consumers’ perception of Fairtrade...

Banana is a tropical fruit commodity which is produced by small farmers and farmer organisations. As a cash crop, farmers tend to specialise in its production and become dependent on its structures of production and trade. As a result of the banana trade war conflict between US traders and the EU due to the preferential agreement the latter gave to...

Profitability is not given the necessary attention in contemporary precision agriculture. In this work, a new tool, namely ProFit, is developed within a pre-existing farm management system, namely ifarma, to assess the profitability of precision agriculture applications in extended crops, as most of the current solutions available on the market res...

Profitability is an underestimated concept in precision agriculture. In this research, a new module is developed within a pre-existing farm management system to assess the profitability of precision agriculture applications in extended crops. The module is regulated on a 5-meter spatial resolution, thus allowing scaling up of original and processed...

Price transmission asymmetries in Dairy

Several policies have been proposed to reduce the environmental impact of agricultural trade. However, a number of these policies have low efficiency on a global scale due to side effects on third-competitor countries. The objective of this article is to assess the consequences of these policies under the existence of market failures that character...

Aims The purpose of this work is to determine the contribution of agricultural cooperatives to the Greek economy. Background Agricultural cooperatives in Greece offered the maximum to agriculture, but their contribution to the overall economy of the country was not sufficiently studied. This work deals with the offer of the operation of agricultur...

Background: The subject of the study in the present work was the correlation of the development of the agricultural sector with the operation of agricultural cooperatives. Considering the importance of the agricultural sector with its big and small problems, the role of agricultural cooperatives in the development of this sector is identified. As i...

Purpose The study's purpose is to investigate the price volatility of four dairy commodities (skim milk powder [SMP], whole milk powder [WMP], butter and cheddar cheese) in the three most significant regional markets (EU, Oceania and US) in the international dairy market. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a panel-Generalized Autoregressiv...

It is a fact that branding is a tool for the business to get stronger and also embrace sustainability, which can apply to the delicatessen product market. In addition, the demand of delicatessen products has increased as new trends emerged. Greek businesses have successfully entered the market, advertising the superiority of delicatessen products....

The purpose of this study was to illustrate and understand how consumers of cooperative food products could be segmented in the region of Western Greece. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was undertaken involving almost 500 consumers in the selected region. Consumers were segmented on the basis of their consumption of cooperative products an...

This paper studies consumers‟ behaviour and consumers‟ opinion about cooperative foodstuff products in the region of Western Greece. The main scope of this paper is to identify market segments for the consumers of cooperatives products based on their attitudes. According to the results of the present research, consumers in Western Greece generally...

The aim of this research was to examine United Kingdom (UK) consumers’ recognition levels, insinuated purchasing intention (IPI) and insinuated purchasing behavior (IPB) associated with sustainability cues on packaging. Empirical research was conducted using an online questionnaire (n = 254) to determine the level of recognition and reported influe...

This article addresses issues of sustainability emanating from increased demand for animal protein in the future. Entomophagy has gained in interest in recent years due to it becoming a viable ingredient in food formulation. Insects are likely to become a viable alternative protein sources in the future, because they are a very good source of nutri...

The purpose of this study is to examine price transmission between the producer and retail in the UK pork industry. It aims to find the direction of causality in the long and short-run, and whether there is a long-run relationship between producer and retail prices. This study used monthly time series data for producer and retail prices ranging fro...

The main aim of this article is to investigate the price transmission of milk between the producers and the retailers within the UK to understand the influence of large retailers on the market. In recent times smaller dairy farms have been forced to close down because they believe that prices are not being conveyed from retailers to producers. The...

Several studies have demonstrated that reduced lung function is a significant risk factor for lung cancer and increased surgical risk in patients with operable stages of lung cancer. The aim of the study was to perform pulmonary function tests and investigate which is a favorable respiratory function test for overall survival between lung cancer st...

Background Several studies have demonstrated that reduced lung function is a significant risk factor for lung cancer and increase surgical risk in patients with operable stages of lung cancer. The aim of the study was to perform pulmonary function tests and investigate which is a favorable respiratory function test for overall survival between lung...