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Technical efficiency and complementarity of agroecological innovations in French West Indies banana production

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  • Jean-Joseph Minviel

    (INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • M’hand Fares

    (INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Jean-Marc Blazy

    (INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Alban Thomas

    (INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

Abstract

In context of global challenges facing agriculture, our article addresses the extent to which the synergistic nature of agroecological innovations may reconcile environmental and technical efficiency of farms. We develop an empirical model, namely conditional efficiency framework, which explicitly accounts for context-dependent drivers like synergy and complementarity of innovations. Using a sample of 567 banana farms in the French West Indies, our estimates confirm the complementarity effect since the joint adoption of agroecological innovations increases the technical efficiency scores much more than other drivers and each of the innovations taken in isolation. We also show that advice and extension services as well as human capital variables are key adoption levers for public policy since they reduce the variability of production and thus the risk associated with the joint adoption of the agroecological innovations.

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  • Jean-Joseph Minviel & M’hand Fares & Jean-Marc Blazy & Alban Thomas, 2023. "Technical efficiency and complementarity of agroecological innovations in French West Indies banana production," Post-Print hal-04352909, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04352909
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2103074
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    Keywords

    Agroecology; Technical efficiency JEL Codes D21; French West Indies;
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    • D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory

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