Evaluating eco-efficiency and optimal levels of fertilizer use based on the social cost and social benefits in tea production

Haq, Shamsheer ul; Boz, İsmet; Shahbaz, Pomi; Yıldırım, Çağatay

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-09533-2

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“…Focusing on data collection through personal interviews, a small part of them (12 papers) had a reference on how they collected their samples. More precisely, 4 referred to Random sampling technique formula (Raheli et al 2017 ; Ramezani et al 2022 ; Sherzod et al 2018 ; Sui et al 2022 ); another 4 to Cochran technique (Ashraf et al 2020 ; Esfahani et al 2017 ; Molinos-Senante et al 2016 ; Payandeh et al 2021 ); 2 to Yamane technique (Haq and Boz 2019 ; Ul Haq et al 2020 ); 1 to Stratified Sampling formula (Godoy-Durán et al 2017 ) and one to snowball sampling method (Mwambo et al 2021 ).…”

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A systematic literature review of data envelopment analysis implementation in agriculture under the prism of sustainability

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Safeguarding natural resources and energy is essential to ensure food security for future generations. Given the increase of published papers in the agricultural field applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this review seeks to address the special requirements of this methodology when implemented in the agricultural sector as well as to classify papers under sustainability aspects (economic, environmental, social). More specifically, 120 papers from Scopus and Web of Science databases were included in this review by using PRISMA methodology, and they were tested in the following groups (i) General information, (ii) DEA implementation, (iii) DEA extensions, (iv) Data type, (v) Data collection and processing, and (vi) Sustainability dimensions. Results indicate that there is a great need for weights use when performing DEA in the agricultural sector, to acquire results with greater explanatory power. Moreover, systematic data collection of multiple factors could lead to the implementation of complex methodologies, providing feasible solutions to the involved stakeholders. Lastly, the social aspect is the least represented dimension out of the three aspects of sustainability, indicating the need for the integration of social factors in such analyses, especially when DEA is used to create a policy framework in a specific area.

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A systematic literature review of data envelopment analysis implementation in agriculture under the prism of sustainability

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“…Scholars of existing research have concentrated more on theoretical analysis of the development status [26,27], scale and trend [28,29], and countermeasures to enhance the competitiveness of the tea industry [30]. Research concentrating on the eco-efficiency of the tea industry is much rarer than empirical studies on the development of tea production [31].…”

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Spatial Disequilibrium and Dynamic Evolution of Eco-Efficiency in China’s Tea Industry

Fan

2023

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Eco-efficiency is a significant target for evaluating the agricultural ecosystem and measuring sustainable agricultural development through quantitative analysis. It is also an essential part of constructing the ecological tea garden, which offers a directional function in realizing the green development of the tea industry. After measuring the eco-efficiency of China’s tea industry using the super-efficiency SBM model, this paper analyzes the spatial disequilibrium and dynamic evolution trend of the eco-efficiency in China’s tea industry through the method of Dagum Gini Coefficient and Kernel Density Estimation. The results show that the level of eco-efficiency in China’s tea industry was improved overall, and the spatial disequilibrium was significantly reduced. The differences within the tea region decreased as follows: tea regions in Southwest China, South China, south of the Yangtze River, and north of the Yangtze River; the overall difference in the eco-efficiency in the tea industry mainly comes from the contribution of the interregional difference in tea regions, and the second contribution comes from the intraregional difference in tea regions and the difference in super-variable density. The eco-efficiency of the tea industry has been improved both nationally and within the top four tea regions; the disequilibrium between areas and within the tea region has been largely alleviated, but there is still room to optimize the input–output structure and promote the eco-efficiency.

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“…The agricultural sector and the agri-food industry are considered as prime sectors of determining optimal levels of eco-efficiency based on resource utility of social cost to consumers and financial benefits to farmers. Such a common resource, that is the excessive use of fertilizer, threatens sustainability and also causes negative externalities in the form of hidden social cost to the society (ul Haq et al 2020). These authors estimated the social costs and benefits in alignment with excessive use of chemical fertilizers on crops and also evaluated the eco-efficiency of cultivations of local agrarian interest.…”

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Environmental Legislation in European and International Contexts: Legal Practices and Social Planning toward the Circular Economy

Kyriakopoulos

2021

Laws

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Environmental issues and relevant policy plans are steadily involving the circular economy (CE) concept into business development. Such significant approaches to achieve environmentally sustainable economic development, they are supported and reinforced by dissatisfaction with the linear traditional approach of “take-make-dispose” model. This traditional production model is bounded on large quantities of directly accessible resources and energy. Therefore, at this study the transition of the linear take-make-dispose model was investigated toward the circularity approach of cost-effectiveness over eco-efficiency. In this respect the study focused on, mainly European, environmental legislation at the industrial sector and the abiding legal practices and social planning regarding CE. The collective presentation of directives and regulations was accompanied by representing those research considerations, social reflections, and legal practices’ impacting. The challenging issues and the key developmental prospects for future researches have been conclusively denoted.

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Evaluating eco-efficiency and optimal levels of fertilizer use based on the social cost and social benefits in tea production

Cited by 18 publications

References 42 publications

A systematic literature review of data envelopment analysis implementation in agriculture under the prism of sustainability

A systematic literature review of data envelopment analysis implementation in agriculture under the prism of sustainability

Spatial Disequilibrium and Dynamic Evolution of Eco-Efficiency in China’s Tea Industry

Environmental Legislation in European and International Contexts: Legal Practices and Social Planning toward the Circular Economy

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