The traditional approach to modeling productive efficiency assumes that technology is
constant across the sample. However, farms in different regions may face different …

Abstract In 2013, the Communist Party of China decided to partially relax its self-sufficiency
targets for grain, historically first recognizing moderate imports as a policy option for …

The purpose of this literature review is to rejuvenate the traditional climate change
adaptation strategies employed by smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study …

In the economics literature, measuring the performance of a dairy farm with a total
productivity index is common practice. Previous research, on the other hand, has been …

Over the last decade, many studies have adopted the data envelopment analysis (DEA)-type
metafrontier framework to relax the constraint of technological heterogeneity. In conventional …

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 …

This study examines the impact of participation in short supply chains (SSCs) on technical
efficiency (TE) and technological change (TC) in cucumber production in China, using data …

Growing environmental concerns have prompted governments to make sustainable choices
in agricultural resource use. Evaluating the sustainability of agricultural systems is a key …

The European Union Common Agricultural Policy reforms since the early 2000s allowed for
the implementation of different types of agricultural subsidies, such as direct support in the …

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 …