This paper investigates the relationship between farm size and land use efficiency in the
Brazilian Amazon. Based on data from the 2006 Brazilian Agricultural Census, we estimated …

Agricultural green production (AGP) and efficiency improvement of smallholders'
management are the objective requirements for the development of China's modernized …

This paper utilizes recent advances in stochastic decomposition methodology to examine
the level and the driving forces of technical efficiency for an unbalanced panel data set of …

Many production processes yield both good outputs and undesirable ones (eg, pollutants).
In this article we develop a generalization of a stochastic frontier model that is appropriate …

Senegal's high dependence on rice imports exposes the country to international market
shocks with concomitant serious risks for food security. Since 2011 and triggered by high …

In this paper we analyse the cost efficiency and nitrogen efficiency of an unbalanced panel
of Dutch dairy farms. Nitrogen efficiency is defined as the ratio of minimal to observed use of …

This study examined the effects of climatic conditions on dairy farm productivity using panel
data for the state of Wisconsin along with alternative stochastic frontier models. A noteworthy …

En este artículo se plasman los resultados de una revisión bibliográfica de textos y artículos
científicos que abordan la teoría de la “Productividad” y de la “Eficiencia técnica” como dos …

This study exploits temporal and cross-sectional variation in weather and long-run climate
trends to investigate their effects on farm-level productivity. Using panel data for a sample of …

This article proposes a tractable approach for analyzing the sources of TFP changes (ie,
technical change, changes in technical and allocative inefficiency, and the scale effect) in a …