In typical Mediterranean settings farming systems are key components and have an impact on the community structure environment in which they take place hence it is important to develop tools for Sustainability Assessment (SA). To enable positive change necessary effectively allocate resources. Thus, understand how farmers’ decision-making impacts their farm’s sustainability performance awarenes...

This paper aims to analyse the technical efficiency (TE) of dairy farms and find its determinants. To accomplish this problem, Stochastic Frontier Analysis was applied. The data were obtained from Farm Accountancy Data Network database for (TF15-45—Specialist dairying) 2004–2019. Dairy divided into four clusters according their physical size (number livestock units per farm) economic (standard ...

The adoption of rare, traditional crops represents a good example enhancing functional agrobiodiversity, not only to provide benefits for farmers but also society as whole. study outlined in this paper aims verify how and under local social-ecological conditions the combination organic cereal farming growing durum wheat landraces can be profitably applied. Focusing on Sicily one most developed ...

The research aims to model wine producer behavior and to assess the effectiveness of policies to reduce pesticide use in winegrape growing. We model the decision of a producer maximizing expected income under constraints and phytosanitary risk, considering the impacts of different strategies targeting downy mildew, the main grape disease in European Atlantic vineyards. The VINEPA model is a mul...

The literature focused on analyzing profit persistence in the agricultural sector is scarce. This paper contributes to reducing this gap by carrying out an empirical study of 10 types farming Spain based a dynamic panel model with microeconomic data from large sample farms provided Spanish Farm Accountancy Data Network. generalized method moments system estimator used assess persistence, includ...

Abstract The measurement of societal wellbeing has moved beyond gross domestic product and emerged as an important factor within the paradigm holistic sustainability assessment, including agricultural sustainability. At this juncture, knowledge gaps exist between policy priorities data infrastructure to evaluate social issues, particularly regarding farmer This study aims address gap through de...

Running any dairy enterprise is a risky activity: the profitability of the enterprise is affected by the price fluctuation of feed and animal health products from inputs, as well as by the fluctuation of end-product prices. Under these circumstances, it is essential for the cattle breeders, in order to survive, to harness the reserves in management as effectively as possible. In this research t...

In this article, we assess farms’ technical efficiency accounting for their production heterogeneity and correcting the potential endogeneity associated with adoption of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) agri-environmental schemes (AESs). We estimate a first-step selection probit model. second step latent class stochastic frontier model (LCSFM) separately on each two sub-samples, AESs adopters n...

This paper deals with the sources of total factor productivity (TFP), namely technical efficiency, scale and technological change, considering size agricultural producers using balanced panel data in period 2014–2018 drawn from Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database for three sectors Czech agriculture – cereals, milk, beef. The investigation is based on stochastic frontier (SF) modelling...

45 The Assessment of Outsourcing IT Services using DEA Technique: A Study of Application Outsourcing in Research Centers Mohammad Amin Zare, Management and Accountancy School, Allame Tabataba’ee University, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Taghi Taghavi Fard, Management and Accountancy School, Allame Tabataba’ee University, Tehran, Iran Payam Hanafizadeh, Management and Accountancy School, Allame Tabataba...