Estimating the link between farm productivity and innovation in the Netherlands

Abstract

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Drivers of farm performance

“…1 Consequently, country cases considered in the analysis depend on OECD members' voluntary participation in the project in the form of data access and advice. This project links to previous OECD work on productivity growth and dynamics, structural change and farms' clustering as well as innovation behaviour and performance links (Kimura and Sauer, 2015;Bokusheva and Čechura, 2017;Sauer, 2017). It significantly adds to this work by explicitly considering multiple dimensions of farms' performance and characteristics in a statistically robust way.…”

Some concepts and indicators used in the Framework

“…In the United States, pig industry developments illustrate the positive relationship between farm size and productivity performance, and the contribution of economies of scale to productivity improvement (OECD, 2016a). However, an ABARES analysis of Australian broadacre farms over the period 1977/78 to 2006/07 finds that while larger farms exhibit higher productivity than smaller ones, this is more likely due to differences in production technology than returns to scale (Sheng et al, 2014). Comparing productivity estimates in developed and developing countries, Rada and Fuglie (2018) suggest that the relationships between size and productivity may depend on context, and in particular development level.…”

Total du taux d’imposition et de cotisation des entreprises, 2017

“…L'évolution de la filière porcine aux États-Unis illustre la relation positive entre la taille des exploitations et leur performance sur le terrain de la productivité, ainsi que la contribution des économies d'échelle à l'amélioration de cette dernière (OCDE, 2016a). Néanmoins, une analyse que l'ABARES a consacrée aux exploitations extensives en Australie sur la période allant de 1977/78 à 2006/07 montre que, si les grandes exploitations enregistrent une productivité supérieure à celle des petites, cela s'explique probablement davantage par les différences dans les technologies de production que par les rendements d'échelle (Sheng et al, 2014). Dans une comparaison des estimations de la productivité dans les pays développés et les pays en développement, Rada et Fuglie (2018) indiquent que la relation entre taille et productivité peut dépendre du contexte et en particulier du niveau de développement 3 .…”