Dr Philip Jones is a Senior Research Fellow at School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at University of Reading with research area of Agricultural Economics. He has a special interest in relationship between diet and land use; food security and self-sufficiency; land use and ecosystem service provision; Economics of Integrated Pest Management.
Recent publications:
Jones, P.J., Tranter, R.B. and Park, J.R. (2017) Assessing the potential economic benefits to farmers from various GM crops becoming available in the European Union by 2025: results from an expert survey. Agricultural Systems, 155, 158–167.
Smith, L., Williams, A., Kirk, G. Robinson, G.M. and Jones, P.J. (2018) Modelling the production impacts of a widespread conversion to organic agriculture in England and Wales, Land Use Policy, 76, 391-404.
McFarlane, I.D., Jones, P.J., Park, J.R. and Tranter, R.B. (2018) Identifying GM crops for future cultivation in the EU through a Delphi forecasting exercise. AgBioForum, 21(1), 1-9.
Areal, F.J., Jones, P.J., Mortimer, S.R. and Wilson, P. (2018) Measuring sustainable intensification: combining composite indicators and efficiency analysis to account for positive externalities in cereal production. Land Use Policy, 75, 314-326.
Creissen, H.E., Jones, P.J., Tranter, R.B., Girling, R.B., Jess, S., Burnett, F.J., Gaffney, M., Thorne, F.S. and Kildea, S. (2019) Measuring the unmeasurable? A method to quantify adoption of integrated pest management practices in temperate arable farming systems, Pest Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5428.
Smith, L.G., Kirk, G.J.D., Jones, P.J., and Williams, A.G. (2019) The greenhouse gas impacts of converting food production in England and Wales to organic methods. Nature Communications, 10, 4641 (2019).
Jones, P.J., Tahamtani, F.M., Pedersen, I.J., Niemi, J.K. and Riber, A.B. (2020) The Productivity and Financial Impacts of Eight Types of Environmental Enrichment for Broiler Chickens. Animals, 2020, 10, 378; doi:10.3390/ani10030378
Creissen, H.E., Jones, P.J., Tranter, R.B., Girling, R.D., Jess, S., Burnett, F.J. Gaffney, M., Thorne, F.S. and Kildea, S. (2021) Identifying the drivers and constraints to adoption of
IPM amongst arable farmers in the UK and Ireland. Pest Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.6452