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Safeguarding natural resources and energy is essential to ensure food security for future generations. Given the increase of published papers in the agricultural field applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this review seeks to address the sp[...]
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This study assesses inputs use efficiency of durum wheat farmers, subscribed under a common Agricultural Decision Support System (ADSS), especially designed by Barilla and HORTA for this cultivation. Data Envelopment Analysis was the main analys[...]
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Cereal, oilseed, and protein (COP) production is an important sector contributing to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Tunisia. COP farms often diversify their production patterns to stabilize their income sources and spread production ris[...]
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D. Dokic ; T. Novakovic ; D. Tekic ; B. Matkovski ; S. Zekic ; D. Milic |Improvements in productivity and efficiency, together with agricultural modernization, are crucial in the process of future sustainable development. As Western Balkan (WB) countries are in the process of integration into the European Union (EU),[...]
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A.M.S. Kheir ; G. Hoogenboom ; K.A. Ammar ; M. Ahmed ; T. Feike ; A. Elnashar ; B. Liu ; Z. Ding ; S. Asseng |Current wheat crop management practices in the Nile Delta of Egypt are unsustainable due to the overuse of limited water resources. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate opportunities to maximize wheat yield and resource efficiency[...]
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Agritourism has consistently increased in Italian rural areas since the early 1990s. Social capital is a fundamental pillar in reducing socio-economic marginalisation in rural areas. This study's main purpose was to assess, through two different[...]
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The purpose of this research is the ex post evaluation of the efficiency of agricultural development projects for the period 2000-2009. The analysis had been based upon a random sample of 244 agricultural perimeters spread over 15 wilayas among [...]
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Grasslands can significantly contribute to climate mitigation. However, recent trends indicate that human activities have switched their net cooling effect to a warming effect due to management intensification and land conversion. This indicates[...]
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Periurban farming systems are characterized by the need to adapt the farming practices coping with a modified natural and social environment. Questions are thus posed on the efficient use of the inputs. The purpose of this study is to estimate t[...]
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This paper aims to analyse the technical efficiency (TE) of dairy farms and find its determinants. To accomplish this problem, the Stochastic Frontier Analysis was applied. The data were obtained from the Farm Accountancy Data Network database f[...]
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L. Aldieri ; M. Brahmi ; X. Cheng ; C.P. Vinci |The objective of the analysis is to investigate the production efficiency in the USA and Europe through the channel of knowledge spillovers from technological innovation in the agricultural sector. Since the empirical evidence concerning the cli[...]
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The evolution of farm size and land use are important determinants of the efficiency and profitability of agriculture and the configuration of the territory. In this paper, a conceptual framework of the evolution of the number of farms and land [...]
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Dans cet écrit nous présentons l’importance relative des productions végétales et animales pour les revenus des systèmes de production agricoles oasiens au Maroc. En effet, dans ce contexte très aride, l’irrigation est obligatoire pour permettre[...]
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Digital technologies offer a potential solution to improve sustainability—economic, social, and environmental—of agri-food systems around the globe. While developed countries have led the innovation and adoption of digital agriculture, the poten[...]
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V. Hedija ; M. Kuncova |Aim of study: To examine the link between economic efficiency and profitability of firms belonging to the swine sector. Area of study: This study is devoted to the Czech swine sector that forms the traditional and essential part of agriculture i[...]
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S. Renner ; J. Sauer ; N. El Benni |A split-panel latent class stochastic frontier model is applied to account for technological heterogeneity among Swiss dairy farms and to assess the potential performance improvements through technology choice and change over 11 years. Three tec[...]
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Based on data drawn from the national section of the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database, the study investigates the efficiency of a panel sample of Italian farms practising other gainful activities. An output-oriented Data Envelopm[...]
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Today's agricultural management decisions impact food security and sustainable ecosystems, even when operating with back-to-basic operations. In such endeavors, policymakers usually need a quantitative tool, such as trade-offs margins, to effect[...]
Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Bourceret | 2021L’approvisionnement des citoyens en eau potable de qualité est un enjeu de santé publique, auquel s’ajoutent des enjeux environnementaux et économiques. L’agriculture est l’une des principales menaces pour la qualité de la ressource en eau potab[...]
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This paper examines the rationale for pursuing environmental objectives by reducing food loss and waste (FLW). The main thrust of the literature on this issue is that FLW reduction can make a major contribution to making food systems more sustai[...]
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This study proposes an assessment of the regional agricultural efficiency convergence potential across the Romanian development regions during a period of sixteen years (from 2001 to 2017). Using the Cobb-Douglas function and the cluster analysi[...]
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This paper analyses the technical efficiency of arable farms in Serbia and its determinants using a two-stage double bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach on the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data from 2014 and 2015 with spec[...]
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B. Coluccia ; D. Valente ; G. Fusco ; F. De Leo ; D. Porrini |Agriculture plays a key role in providing a wide range of ecosystem services, such as food, feed, fiber and biofuel, thus taking part in the economic development of countries. On the other hand, this sector also gives rise to negative externalit[...]
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D. Fernández-Uclés ; S. Elfkih ; A. Mozas Moral ; E. Bernal Jurado ; M.J. Medina-Viruel ; S. Ben Abdallah |This study aims to assess the economic efficiency of Tunisian olive oil firms in order to identify the organizational and technological variables that are directly associated with greater efficiency. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and fuzzy[...]
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Collective action by farmers including the development of cooperatives is regarded as one of solutions to overcome low productivity. This study investigates the impact of agricultural cooperative on technical efficiency (TE) and total factor pro[...]
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The value-added diversification strategy provides an option for guaranteeing the sustainability of small farms. This study examines how factors related to managerial strategy and socio-environmental sustainability influence the efficiency of div[...]
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In this study, it is tried to determine the efficiencies of agricultural enterprises in the use of capital and credit in Turkey by DEA. In the scope of the study, 550 farmers in enterprises in Antalya, Konya, Karaman, Ankara, and Eskişehir [...]
Thèse, Mémoire, Master
La fertilisation azotée est un levier primordial pour la culture de blé. Sa maîtrise permet d’optimiser le rendement et la teneur en protéine, tout en minimisant les pertes azotées vers l’environnement. La méthode du bilan, actuellement utilisée[...]
Thèse, Mémoire, Master
L’aquaculture est considérée comme l’une des solutions pour renforcer la sécurité alimentaire des pays. Suite à la pression que connait la pêche en Algérie, un projet pilote de crevetticulture a été initié à Hassi Ben Abdellah dans une région sa[...]
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Today, one of the top priorities of an organization’s modern corporate strategy is to portray itself as socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. As a focal point of sustainability initiatives, green supply chain management has emerg[...]
