Does participation in agri-environmental schemes increase eco-efficiency?
Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE Jazyk angličtina Země Nizozemsko Médium print-electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články
PubMed
37813258
DOI
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167518
PII: S0048-9697(23)06145-4
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- Klíčová slova
- AES, Adapted Li-test, Agri-environmental schemes, Biodiversity, Eco-efficiency, Environment, Environmental pressure, Group-wise heterogeneous bootstrap, Hungarian agriculture,
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
The literature on the effectiveness of Agri-Environmental Schemes focuses mainly on the environmental effects; only a few studies have focused on economic aspects. The number of papers that address ecological and economic outcomes simultaneously is even more limited. In this paper, we apply the concept of eco-efficiency to integrate these two factors. The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of participation in the agri-environmental scheme of Hungarian field crop farmers in terms of eco-efficiency. To make unbiased and consistent comparisons we use advances from aggregation and bootstrap theory in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) context. The results indicate that there exists a significant potential for enhancing eco-efficiency in Hungarian crop farms. Furthermore, our results reveal that, in terms of eco-efficiency, perceived as the relationship of farm income to pesticide, fertilizers and energy use, no significant differences exist between participating and non-participating farmers. The results are robust to different methods. Our results pose questions about the efficacy of the Agri-Environmental Scheme.
HUN REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute of Economics 1097 Budapest Hungary
Partium Christian University Strada Primăriei 36 Oradea 410209 Romania
University of Nyíregyháza 4400 Nyíregyháza Sóstói út 31 B Hungary
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