Economic versus environmental improvement potentials of Danish pig farms

TY - JOUR

T1 - Economic versus environmental improvement potentials of Danish pig farms

AU - Asmild, Mette

AU - Hougaard, Jens Leth

N1 - JEL Classification: C14, D24, Q12

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - This article demonstrates how economic and environmental improvement potentials of Danish pig farms can be estimated using Data envelopment analysis (DEA). To avoid some of the problems associated with the definition of undesirable outputs, environmental variables are included as nutrients applied with manure and nutrients removed with the crops. These environmental variables are combined with a series of economic variables, including the costs of fertilizer. Furthermore, subvector efficiency and a two-step analysis are used in order to consider economic and environmental (technical) efficiency separately. The empirical results show considerable improvement potentials, especially on the environmental variables. Sensitivity studies validate that these results are robust to possible uncertainties in the measurement of the environmental variables

AB - This article demonstrates how economic and environmental improvement potentials of Danish pig farms can be estimated using Data envelopment analysis (DEA). To avoid some of the problems associated with the definition of undesirable outputs, environmental variables are included as nutrients applied with manure and nutrients removed with the crops. These environmental variables are combined with a series of economic variables, including the costs of fertilizer. Furthermore, subvector efficiency and a two-step analysis are used in order to consider economic and environmental (technical) efficiency separately. The empirical results show considerable improvement potentials, especially on the environmental variables. Sensitivity studies validate that these results are robust to possible uncertainties in the measurement of the environmental variables

U2 - 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00150.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00150.x

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0169-5150

VL - 35

SP - 171

EP - 181

JO - Agricultural Economics

JF - Agricultural Economics

IS - 2

ER -