IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijarge/v2y2003i3-4p228-242.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Hot spots in animal agriculture, emerging federal environmental policies and the potential for efficiency and innovation offsets

Author

Listed:
  • Ada Wossink
  • Frank Wefering

Abstract

In North America and Northern Europe, high livestock densities in concentrated areas (hot spots) have led to manure surpluses, which have resulted in water pollution problems. Using the emerging policy objectives for animal waste in the European Union and the USA as a backdrop, this paper discusses the impact of environmental regulation on farm profits. A theoretical model of the farm is presented where pollution is a joint output of production and where inefficiency in production prevails. Given this assumption, environmental regulations affect both the level of inefficiency and the extent of technological change and can induce cost offsets. Data from the Netherlands, where strict environmental regulation has been in place for animal agriculture since 1987, are used to test the hypothesis about efficiency and innovation offsets. Furthermore, differences in these offsets between farm types are assessed.

Suggested Citation

  • Ada Wossink & Frank Wefering, 2003. "Hot spots in animal agriculture, emerging federal environmental policies and the potential for efficiency and innovation offsets," International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3/4), pages 228-242.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:2:y:2003:i:3/4:p:228-242
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=3970
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Furdychko O.I. & Svalyavchuk L.I. & Shevtsova O.L., 2019. "Ecological And Economic Researches In The Use Of By-Products Of Animal Origin," Balanced Nature Using, Institute of agroecology and environmental management, vol. 8(2), pages 5-12, May.
    2. Larue, Solene & Abildtrup, Jens & Schmitt, Bertrand, 2008. "Modelling the Spatial Structure of Pig Production in Denmark," 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium 44281, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Rodić, Vesna & Bošnjak, Danica & Vukelić, Nataša, 2007. "Sustainability of Agricultural Land Management in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina," 100th Seminar, June 21-23, 2007, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro 162353, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    4. Malone, Trey & Melstrom, Richard T., 2020. "Where’s the beef? Cattle producers’ response to endangered species listings," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:2:y:2003:i:3/4:p:228-242. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=1 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.