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Do farmers provide agri-environmental services efficiently? – An economic analysis

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Kantelhardt, Jochen
Eckstein, Karin
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Agricultural land use does not only concern farmers, but also has a large number of social and environmental effects. Consequently, it is to be assumed that farmers have to use financial resources as well as labour in order to provide these services. Using the nonparametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we calculated the economic as well as the ecological efficiencies of farms and examined whether farms are able to succeed in combining ecological and economic efficiency. In addition to this analysis, we studied the driving factors of the respective efficiencies. The study was carried out in four typical production regions in Bavaria which vary in their proportions of grassland as well as their yield potential; thus, the study regions reflect a gradient of agricultural land use which is typical for Southern Germany. In all regions, a farm survey was conducted covering a total of 122 farmers.

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Paper provided by Agricultural Economics Society in its series 81st Annual Conference, April 2-4, 2007, Reading University with number 7973.

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Keywords: agricultural land use; data envelopment analysis; ecological efficiency; economic efficiency; Environmental Economics and Policy;

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  1. Reig-Martinez, Ernest & Picazo-Tadeo, Andres J., 2004. "Analysing farming systems with Data Envelopment Analysis: citrus farming in Spain," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 82(1), pages 17-30, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Reinhard, Stijn & Knox Lovell, C. A. & Thijssen, Geert J., 2000. "Environmental efficiency with multiple environmentally detrimental variables; estimated with SFA and DEA," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 121(2), pages 287-303, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Kapfer, Martin & Kantelhardt, Jochen & Osinski, Elisabeth, 2003. "Estimation Of Costs For Maintaining Landscape Elements By The Example Of Southwest Germany," 2003 Annual Meeting, August 16-22, 2003, Durban, South Africa 25923, International Association of Agricultural Economists. [Downloadable!]
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