Arbeitspapier

Farm eco-efficiency: Can sustainable intensification make the difference?

Sustainable intensification measures promise ecological improvements of farming while maintaining profitability. That is, farms should be able to produce at a higher ecological efficiency without losses in economic efficiency. Based on a theoretical framework, we investigate this promise empirically by analysing the environmental improvement potential of sustainable intensification. We thereby focus on quantifying biodiversity gains using a directional meta-frontier approach and farm survey data from the northern German Plain. We compare eco-efficiency scores in an ecological direction between adopters and matched non-adopters to identify the causal relationship between these gains and sustainable intensification. We find that adopters determine the system frontier. Despite higher mean eco-efficiency scores, most adopters do not yet fully exploit the potential of ecological improvements through sustainable intensification.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: FORLand-Working Paper ; No. 10 (2019)

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
Thema
environmental sustainability
eco-efficiency
directional data envelopment analysis
matching

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Weltin, Meike
Hüttel, Silke
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DFG Research Unit 2569 FORLand "Agricultural Land Markets - Efficiency and Regulation"
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.18452/20221
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Weltin, Meike
  • Hüttel, Silke
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DFG Research Unit 2569 FORLand "Agricultural Land Markets - Efficiency and Regulation"

Entstanden

  • 2019

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