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Dynamic sustainable productivity growth of Dutch dairy farming
2022
PLoS ONE
In this paper, we propose a recently developed dynamic Luenberger indicator based on the by-production model to measure dynamic productivity growth in the economic, environmental and social dimensions ...
The economic, environmental and social sustainability of Dutch dairy farms have attracted increasing societal concern in the past decades. ...
Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0264410
pmid:35213644
pmcid:PMC8880952
fatcat:wuitaolpxrgbpoq5xxfvusmk3u
Is agricultural intensification in The Netherlands running up to its limits?
2013
NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
To consolidate and strengthen the Dutch position as second agricultural exporter in the world, this process is still continuing, linked with constant efforts to further improve economic and environmental ...
A typical example of a sector characterised by intensification, scale enlargement and regional concentration is the Dutch livestock sector. ...
Anticipating the abolition of the European milk quota system by 2015, many Dutch dairy farmers have increased their production capacity, which has been associated with increases in average farm and herd ...
doi:10.1016/j.njas.2013.06.001
fatcat:ftr5caisdbgr7mr7a5lurjmpz4
The Impact of Parcel Structure on the Efficiency of Finnish Dairy Farms
2015
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
We develop a stochastic production frontier model to estimate the technical efficiency of Finnish dairy farms and simulate the effect of parcel distance and parcel size on the efficiency of an average ...
In Finland, expanding dairy farms often face the problem of additional fields being geographically distant and only available as small parcels. ...
It is based on a partial budgeting approach in the sense that the economic impact of applying the Dutch rules and regulation are imposed to the Danish Dairy farm to see the economic impact of this change ...
doi:10.1017/s1068280500004627
fatcat:it6645i7h5bfflxgtpcdld2wnu
Farm technical-economic performance depending on the degree of ecological approaches
2021
Zenodo
The overall aim of Task 3.2 is to assess and compare technical-economic farm performance across the European Union (EU) depending on the degree of ecological approaches adopted by farms and analyse drivers ...
approaches and bio-economic models. ...
indicators to modelled arable and dairy farms in order to assess the impact of agri-environmental and climate measures on sustainable farm performance. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5075488
fatcat:sllt4tffvfh2vnvvsw5lsdwqby
SURE-Farm Project's edited book: Resilient and sustainable EU-farming systems; exploring diversity and pathways
2021
Zenodo
Deliverable - SURE-Farm Project's edited book: Resilient and sustainable EU-farming systems; exploring diversity and pathways ...
Whereas in the past the focus has been on improving the economics (production) of farming, the emphasis here is on environmental and social innovations to tackle the urgent issues of climate change, soil ...
o Role of dairy in human diets taking into account the environmental impact of dairy products? o Role of plant-based milk alternatives in future 'dairy' consumption? ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.4897649
fatcat:267io4cabffspj6fdpodo3o5ym
Spatial Spillovers on Input‐specific Inefficiency of Dutch Arable Farms
2020
Journal of Agricultural Economics
The empirical application concerns Dutch arable farms for which latitudes and longitudes are available. ...
For productive inputs technical inefficiency, statistically significant spillover effects from neighbours' age and their degree of specialisation depended on the type of the spatial weight matrix used ...
Skevas and Oude Lansink (2020) and I. Skevas (2020) found spatial spillover effects on dynamic inefficiency of Dutch dairy farms. Our study makes three distinct contributions beyond I. ...
doi:10.1111/1477-9552.12400
fatcat:zfml5uriured7bfbusigwl4z2e
Farm environmental performance depending on the degree of ecological approaches
2021
Zenodo
Results from four main approaches are summarised: (i) farm bio-economic model enabling the computation of environmental indicators for a specific farm [...] ...
Evidence collected through the REA was compiled in a database and formed the basis for the subsequent qualitative and quantitative assessments of environmental performance of farm management practices. ...
The challenge is to observe environmental outputs jointly produced by farms with economic outputs, and one is forced to consider proxies based on inputs and practices that limit the range of methodologies ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5075577
fatcat:n6egk5updrboxneseqpzu7v4jy
A review of precision technologies in pasture-based dairying systems
2021
Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research
Therefore, one of the key drivers of efficiency in pasture-based systems has only been marginally impacted by PTs. ...
The promised benefits of precision technologies (PTs) include improved efficiency, quality, animal health and welfare and reduced environmental impacts. ...
Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge funding provided ...
doi:10.15212/ijafr-2020-0119
fatcat:tpwhclnt55hbdeti62yn2csfgm
Resilience assessment of current farming systems across the European Union
2019
Zenodo
For improving sustainability and resilience of EU farming system, the current state needs to be assessed, before being able to move on to future scenarios. ...
Assessing sustainability and resilience of farming systems is a multi-faceted research challenge in terms of the scientific domains and scales of integration (farm, household, farming system level) that ...
(economic, environmental, social and institutional), by level (farm or farming system), and by duration (shock or long-term pressure). ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.4351105
fatcat:luvmfmvzaffxljt6dp5ntufvfe
Quantitative analyses of natural resource management options at different scales
2007
Agricultural Systems
Moreover, globalization is leading to increasing pressure on the economic viability of food production systems, resulting in a search for more remunarative land uses by many farmers in both the developed ...
In these methodologies, the aims and aspirations of the different stakeholders have to be taken into account, but they should be based on thorough knowledge of the agro-technical possibilities and socio-economic ...
To assist in identifying options for agro-ecologically and economically sustainable land use in dairy farming systems, within the boundaries set by environmental conditions and government regulations, ...
doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2006.11.008
fatcat:c2cxnwoxavgmnbb5d5sdmrotoi
Environmental Efficiency of Organic and Conventional Cotton in Benin
2019
Sustainability
Producers could improve the quantity of cotton produced by 27% and 17% while reducing emissions by 21% and 14% respectively for both organic and conventional cotton to achieve better environmental performance ...
A Translog hyperbolic distance function which allows us to consider the joint production of desirable and undesirable output is used to analyze the environmental efficiency among organic and conventional ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest ...
doi:10.3390/su11113044
fatcat:ju42t2f3ybch3i4gdljvzhybya
Modelling of Livestock Systems to Enhance Efficiency
2019
Animal Frontiers
commodities to enable integrated evaluation of dairy management systems for environmental, social, and economic sustainability. ...
The modeling system will be able to inform farm-level decisions to support more economically and environmentally sustainable dairy production systems. ...
He obtained the diploma "Ingénieur Agronome" from Institut National Agronomique (Paris) followed by MSc and PhD from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. ...
doi:10.1093/af/vfz023
pmid:32055429
pmcid:PMC7009596
fatcat:54nbp4e2b5hn5k7mkix25p4vfe
Review: Associations among goods, impacts and ecosystem services provided by livestock farming
2018
Animal
Mapping ES from the landscape up to the EU-wide scale reveals a frequent trade-off between livestock production on one side and regulating and cultural services on the other. ...
The aim of analysing bundles of services is to chart the coexistence and interactions between the various services and impacts provided by livestock farming, and to identify sets of ecosystem services ...
Acknowledgements This work is part of the collective scientific assessment of the 'Role, impacts and services provided by European livestock production' that was carried out by INRA at the request of the ...
doi:10.1017/s1751731118002586
pmid:30333070
pmcid:PMC6639720
fatcat:6vp7vtf34fccneqjukfhragwym
Inequality regimes in Indonesian dairy cooperatives: understanding institutional barriers to gender equality
2019
Agriculture and Human Values
Central to the exploration is a discussion of formal and informal institutions as part of the dynamics of the inequality regimes in dairy cooperatives. ...
, as well as farm size-and resource-related trends in 'masculinization' and 'feminization' of the smallholder farmer household. ...
Fund for the Local and International business collaboration for productivity and Quality Improvement in Dairy chains in Southeast Asia and East Africa (LIQUID) program (http://liqui dprog ram.net) in ...
doi:10.1007/s10460-018-09908-9
fatcat:ubkp52q7bvd7hkxnbpbom3fmlu
Strategic Actions for a Sustainable Internationalization of Agri-Food Supply Chains: The Case of the Dairy Industries from Brazil and Germany
2021
Sustainability
Nonetheless, in Germany the leading dairy companies mainly pushed by a saturated domestic market, EU agriculture policy oriented to liberalization of markets, and increasing political and social demands ...
While facing a growing domestic demand of milk and milk products, the Brazilian dairy industry is far behind in terms of competitiveness and sustainability when compared to other national agricultural ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/su131910873
fatcat:fpzk7ie5frc23kk2hewspg3e3i
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