This article summarizes the literature on efficiency and productivity of organic farming. We
distinguish between studies that concentrate on specific problems of the organic sector and …

The world organic sector has evolved in a rapid way over the last few decades, driven by
consumer interest, producer and retailer strategies, as well as by the evolving normative …

Pesticides pose serious threats to both human health and the environment. In Europe,
farmers are encouraged to reduce their use and in France a recent environmental policy …

Risk management in agricultural production is a first order problem as producers' long-run
sustainability often depends on their ability to reduce the adverse effects of profit …

This study evaluates the eco-efficiency of agriculture in Pupiao Town, in the Yunnan
province of China, through micro-level research. The term" eco-efficiency" refers to the …

Tilapia is a fast-growing fish that has huge potential for production in Bangladesh. Despite
the impressive growth of the industry, production is highly volatile across farms and …

This paper investigates the explanatory power of the risk attitude measured with the Holt and
Laury (HL) task for farmers' production decision behaviour. In order to achieve this, a Just …

Our objective is to extend the latent class stochastic frontier (LCSFM) model to compute
productivity change, using the robust transitive productivity Färe‐Primont index. The …

This paper assesses the efficiency of rain-fed cereals crops grown in Southern Spain. The
proposed approach uses a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) plus regression …

Purpose This study aims to examine the technical efficiency of the chemical-free farming
system in India using a hybrid combination of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and …