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

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

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

Klassifikation und Themen

• 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

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• 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

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.18452/20221
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/213064
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ