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View article: Are mixed crop–livestock regions in Europe more profitable with mixed or specialized farms?
Are mixed crop–livestock regions in Europe more profitable with mixed or specialized farms? Open
Mixed agricultural regions, which balance crop and livestock production, are often recommended to enhance resilience and sustainability. This study assesses the profit potential of mixed regions in Europe for three scenarios: (1) a combina…
View article: Can Dutch dairy farmers finance investments to reduce ammonia emissions?
Can Dutch dairy farmers finance investments to reduce ammonia emissions? Open
The Dutch agricultural sector is emitting high levels of ammonia, which threatens the biodiversity of nature protection areas in the Netherlands. One solution to reduce emissions is to invest in cleaner technologies and structural changes …
View article: Triple gains: More production, less nitrogen and greater diversity from cropland reallocation in England and Wales
Triple gains: More production, less nitrogen and greater diversity from cropland reallocation in England and Wales Open
Agricultural production is the main driver of nitrogen pollution and diversity loss. This study assesses the potential of cropland reallocation to simultaneously increase production and decrease nitrogen balances, and its impact on crop di…
View article: Financial Barriers to Reducing Nitrogen Pollution in Dutch Dairy Farms
Financial Barriers to Reducing Nitrogen Pollution in Dutch Dairy Farms Open
Summary Nitrogen fertiliser boosts agricultural yields, but its excessive use destabilises ecosystems. That is why Dutch policy makers want to reduce nitrogen pollution on dairy farms. Cleaner technologies and structural changes could redu…
View article: Analysing determinate components of an approximated Luenberger–Hicks–Moorsteen productivity indicator: An application to German dairy‐processing firms
Analysing determinate components of an approximated Luenberger–Hicks–Moorsteen productivity indicator: An application to German dairy‐processing firms Open
The Luenberger–Hicks–Moorsteen (LHM) total factor productivity (TFP) indicator has sound theoretical properties, but its decomposition yields indeterminate components of technical change and scale efficiency change that can become infeasib…
View article: Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions on Dutch dairy farms. An efficiency analysis incorporating the circularity principle.
Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions on Dutch dairy farms. An efficiency analysis incorporating the circularity principle. Open
Circular agriculture is vital to achieve a substantial reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Optimizing resources and land use are an essential circularity principle. The objective of this article is to assess the extent to which la…
View article: How limiting is finance for Dutch dairy farms? A dynamic profit analysis
How limiting is finance for Dutch dairy farms? A dynamic profit analysis Open
Accessibility to financial resources is considered a prevalent problem in the agricultural sector. We develop an approach to quantify the long‐term opportunity costs of financial constraints in relation to peers who do not face any financi…
View article: Investigating the relationship between knowledge and the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: The case of Dutch arable farmers
Investigating the relationship between knowledge and the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices: The case of Dutch arable farmers Open
The intensive usage of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides helps Dutch arable farmers to secure high yields at low costs. However, this intensive arable production system also results in environmental degradation in terms of biodiversity …
View article: Stimulating risk averse farmers to adopt microbial applications
Stimulating risk averse farmers to adopt microbial applications Open
Increasing agricultural production, while decreasing its impact on the environment is a global challenge. Sustainable innovations, such as microbial applications, can play an important role in this light. However, risk averse farmers are o…
View article: Robust nonparametric analysis of dynamic profits, prices and productivity: An application to French meat-processing firms
Robust nonparametric analysis of dynamic profits, prices and productivity: An application to French meat-processing firms Open
Appropriately considering adjustment costs, this paper develops a robust nonparametric framework to analyse profits, prices and productivity in a dynamic context. Dynamic profit change is decomposed into a dynamic Bennet price indicator an…
View article: Energy productivity and greenhouse gas emission intensity in Dutch dairy farms: A Hicks–Moorsteen by‐production approach under non‐convexity and convexity with equivalence results
Energy productivity and greenhouse gas emission intensity in Dutch dairy farms: A Hicks–Moorsteen by‐production approach under non‐convexity and convexity with equivalence results Open
The agricultural sector is currently confronted with the challenge to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, whilst maintaining or increasing production. Energy‐saving technologies are often proposed as a partial solution, but the evidence…
View article: Behavioural drivers and barriers for adopting microbial applications in arable farms: Evidence from the Netherlands and Germany
Behavioural drivers and barriers for adopting microbial applications in arable farms: Evidence from the Netherlands and Germany Open
Microbial applications contribute to more sustainable agriculture by stimulating plant growth, increasing resistance to pests and diseases and relieving stresses from climate change. To stimulate the adoption of microbial applications, it …
View article: Behavioural drivers and barriers for adopting microbial applications in arable farms: Evidence from the Netherlands and Germany
Behavioural drivers and barriers for adopting microbial applications in arable farms: Evidence from the Netherlands and Germany Open
Microbial applications contribute to more sustainable agriculture by stimulating plant growth, increasing resistance to pests and diseases and relieving stresses from climate change. To stimulate the adoption of microbial applications, it …
View article: A note on performance indicators for agricultural economic journals
A note on performance indicators for agricultural economic journals Open
We investigate various performance indicators of ten leading journals in the field of Agricultural Economics and Policy over the period from 2000 to 2020. More specifically, we combine various data sources to derive a coherent record of in…
View article: Consumer willingness to pay for plant-based foods produced using microbial applications to replace synthetic chemical inputs
Consumer willingness to pay for plant-based foods produced using microbial applications to replace synthetic chemical inputs Open
Analysis of consumer preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for sustainable foods produced using new agri-food technologies is required to enhance the uptake of innovations that accelerate the transition towards sustainable food systems.…
View article: Closing productivity gaps among Dutch dairy farms can boost profit and reduce nitrogen pollution
Closing productivity gaps among Dutch dairy farms can boost profit and reduce nitrogen pollution Open
Agricultural productivity growth can simultaneously increase profit and reduce pollution. Yet, the impact of productivity growth on both has not been quantified. The objective of our study was to develop an approach to quantify the extent …
View article: Stacking of abatement credits for cost-effective achievement of climate and water targets
Stacking of abatement credits for cost-effective achievement of climate and water targets Open
In a stacking system abatement measures with simultaneous effects on climate and water targets, such aswetland construction and cultivation of energy crops, are credited for the abatement of multiple pollutants. Inthis study we calculated …
View article: Superlative approximation of the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator: Theory and application
Superlative approximation of the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator: Theory and application Open
Consisting of the difference between an output indicator and an input indicator, the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen (LHM) productivity indicator allows straightforward interpretation. However, it requires estimation of distance functions that …
View article: Sustainable Intensification in agriculture? A global assessment
Sustainable Intensification in agriculture? A global assessment Open
A growing population leads to rising food demand, which requires a substantial increase in food supply. However, agricultural production is often an important driver of environmental problems. The ”Sustainable Intensifica- tion” (SI) parad…
View article: The dynamic Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator with an application to dairy farms in South West England
The dynamic Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator with an application to dairy farms in South West England Open
This paper introduces a dynamic Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen (LHM) productivity indicator that takes into account the adjustment costs of changing the level of quasi-fixed capital inputs. Being additively complete in the dynamic sense, the L…
View article: Exact and superlative measurement of the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator
Exact and superlative measurement of the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator Open
This paper shows that the Bennet-Bowley profit indicator is an exact and superlative approximation of the additively complete Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator when the input and output directional distance functions can be…
View article: To mix or specialise? A coordination productivity indicator for English and Welsh farms
To mix or specialise? A coordination productivity indicator for English and Welsh farms Open
This paper introduces a nonparametric measure of coordination Luenberger productivity growth where the subprocesses are explicitly modelled in the production technology. The coordination productivity indicator is decomposed into a coordina…