Technical efficiency and conversion to organic farming: the case of France
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Using a sample of French crop farms during the 1999-2007 period, we test whether farmers’ technical efficiency under conventional practices is a significant driver of conversion to organic farming. An important issue is whether subsidies to organic farming could encourage inefficient farmers to convert. We find that the probability of conversion does depend on technical efficiency preceding the conversion, but that the direction of the effect depends on farm size. This result is found to be robust to the method of calculation of efficiency scores, either parametric or non-parametric. This study also confirms that farm’s characteristics (education, farm size, indebtedness) and farmers’ practices under conventional farming do impact the probability of conversion to OF.
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