@techreport{Ordonez2003Voluntary,
abstract = {Voluntary environmental agreements have been popular with government agencies in
several countries. However, many questions remain about their efficiency as a regulatory
tool. Recent analyses suggest that they are more effective than classical regulatory or
economic approaches when dealing with nonpoint pollution and when innovation processes
at the source are necessary to define effective regulation. This paper applies an activitybased
framework to assess the contribution of voluntary agreements to the environmental
performance of farms participating voluntarily in a whole farm plan in the Southern part of
Belgium. Using a cross-section of 52 farms, our results show that farms entering into
environmental agreements are environmentally more efficient than non-participating farms
when non-desirable outputs and the conservation of landscape features is accounted for in the
analysis.},
author = {Andrea Ord\'{o}\\textasciitilde{}{n}ez and Jutta Roosen},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {Q12; Q2; C14; 330; Agri-environmental indicators; Data envelopment analysis; Environmental efficiency; Voluntary agreements; Whole farm plan; Landwirtschaft; Umweltschutz; Selbstverpflichtung; Technische Effizienz; Sch\"{a}tzung; Belgien},
language = {eng},
number = {0305},
title = {Voluntary Agreements and the Environmental Efficiency of Participating Farms},
type = {FE Workingpaper / Universit\"{a}t Kiel, Department of Food Economics and Consumption Studies},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23597},
year = {2003}
}

