Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/308456 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Environmental and Resource Economics [ISSN:] 1573-1502 [Volume:] 84 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer Netherlands [Place:] Dordrecht [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 315-342
Publisher: 
Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
Abstract: 
Sustainable Intensification (SI) practices offer adopters exploiting improvement potentials in environmental performance of farming, i.e. enhance ecosystem functionality, while maintaining productivity. This paper proposes a directional meta-frontier approach for measuring farms' eco-efficiency and respective improvement potentials in the direction of farms' ecological output for SI evaluation. We account for farms' selection processes into SI using a behavioural model and rely on a matched sample for adopters and non-adopters of agronomic SI practices from the northern German Plain. We conclude that the SI adopters determined the sample's system frontier and showed higher mean eco-efficiency, but that most farms in our sample did not fully exploit the improvement potentials in biodiversity as ecological outcome.
Subjects: 
Sustainable intensification concept
Directional data envelopment analysis
Eco-efficiency
Environmental sustainability
Matching
Meta-frontier
JEL: 
Q12
Q15
Q57
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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