Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Eco-Performance at Farm Level: A Parametric Approach

Stetter, Christian; Sauer, Johannes

doi:10.1007/s10640-021-00642-1

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“…Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gases, which demonstrates its contribution to global warming. Stetter and Sauer (2022) analyzed whether GHGs can be attenuated at the micro level. The authors analyzed a number of farms, regarding the ratio of emissions dynamics to performance.…”

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The effects of energy taxes level on greenhouse gas emissions in the environmental policy measures framework

Fîrţescu

Brinza

Grosu

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Over the last decades, all countries have pursued an ambitious climate policy, thus showing a growing concern about climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, or environmental taxes. Water, air, and soil pollution caused by gas emissions directly affect human health, but also the economies of states. As people’s ability to adapt to novel changes becomes increasingly difficult, globally, they are constantly trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in a variety of ways. Environmental taxes, in general, and energy taxes, in particular, are considered effective tools, being recommended by specialists, among other instruments used in environmental policy. The aim of this research is to assess, empirically, the influence of environmental taxes levels on greenhouse gas emissions in 28 European countries, with a time span between 1995 and 2019. Regarding the empirical research, the proposed methods are related to Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) models in panel data and also at country level. At panel level, we used the estimation of non-stationary heterogeneous panels and also the dynamic common-correlated effects model with heterogeneous coefficients over cross-sectional units and time periods. The results obtained show that the increase in environmental taxes leads, in most countries, to a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. To test the robustness of our results, we have included supplementary economic and social control variables in the model, such as gross domestic product (GDP), population density, exports, or imports. Overall, our paper focuses on the role of environmental policy decisions on greenhouse gas emissions, the results of the study showing, in most cases, an inverse impact of the taxation level on the reduction of gas emissions.

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The effects of energy taxes level on greenhouse gas emissions in the environmental policy measures framework

Fîrţescu

Brinza

Grosu

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…For instance, converting grassland to cropland could reduce emissions from the decreasing of peat soils in the Netherlands (Arets et al., 2020). Stetter and Sauer (2022) have studied the dynamic eco‐efficiency as the ratio between economic performance and environmental damage for four different types of Bavaria farms. Eco‐efficiency rewards production and penalizes pollution, but the production process is not explicitly modeled (Stetter & Sauer, 2022).…”

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“…Stetter and Sauer (2022) have studied the dynamic eco‐efficiency as the ratio between economic performance and environmental damage for four different types of Bavaria farms. Eco‐efficiency rewards production and penalizes pollution, but the production process is not explicitly modeled (Stetter & Sauer, 2022). Stetter and Sauer (2022) conclude that dairy farmers are on average less eco‐efficient than mixed farms with livestock production and crop production.…”

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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions on Dutch dairy farms. An efficiency analysis incorporating the circularity principle.

Wang,

Ang,

Oude Lansink

2023

Agricultural Economics

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Circular agriculture is vital to achieve a substantial reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Optimizing resources and land use are an essential circularity principle. The objective of this article is to assess the extent to which land optimization can simultaneously reduce GHG emissions and increase production on dairy farms. In addition, we explore the potential reduction of GHG emissions under four different pathways. The empirical application combines the network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the by‐production approach. This study focuses on a representative sample of Dutch dairy farms over the period of 2010–2019. Our results suggest that farms can simultaneously increase production and reduce GHG emissions by both 5.1%. However, only 0.6% can be attributed to land optimization. The land optimization results show that on average 25.3% of total farm size should be allocated to cropland, which is 6.7% more than the actual land allocation. GHG emissions could be reduced by 11.79% without changing the level of inputs and outputs. This can be achieved by catching up with the mitigation practices of the best performing peers.

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“…Most agricultural policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have largely been based on aggregate-level evidence without adequately accounting for farm heterogeneity. Recently, attempts have been made to obtain GHG data at the farm level (Stetter and Sauer, 2022).…”

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Possible Impact of Risk Management Strategies with Farm Model on a Mixed Farm Type

Brečko

Žgajnar

2022

Business Systems Research Journal

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Background: Farm-level models have become an important tool for agricultural economists as there is a growing demand for microsimulation and analysis of farms at the individual level. Objectives: In this paper, we present a mathematical model with the main objective of assessing the effectiveness of production and various possible strategies for agricultural holdings by reducing risks. At the same time, we were also interested in the environmental impacts of such strategies. The latter was measured using the indicator of GHG emissions. Methods/Approach: The model applied is based on linear programming and upgraded with QRP for risk analysis. The approach was tested on medium size mixed agricultural holding, which often faces challenges in light of the structural changes taking place in Slovenia. Results: The results suggest that such a farm could improve financial results with a more efficient risk management strategy. With a slightly modified production plan, the expected gross margin (EGM) can be increased by up to 10% at more or less the same risk. However, if the farmer is willing to diversify the production plan and take a higher risk (+23%), the farm’s EGM could increase by up to 18%. This kind of change in the production plan would also generate 17% more GHG emissions in total, calculated as kg equivalent of CO2 at the farm level, as both BL and C scenarios have the same relative ratio at 3.12 GHG CO2 eq. /EUR. Conclusions: Through this research, we concluded that diversification has a positive potential on a mixed farm, and the farm could achieve better financial results. With flexibility in management, the farmer could also achieve higher risk management efficiency and better farm results.

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Eco-Performance at Farm Level: A Parametric Approach

Cited by 24 publications

References 58 publications

The effects of energy taxes level on greenhouse gas emissions in the environmental policy measures framework

The effects of energy taxes level on greenhouse gas emissions in the environmental policy measures framework

Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions on Dutch dairy farms. An efficiency analysis incorporating the circularity principle.

Possible Impact of Risk Management Strategies with Farm Model on a Mixed Farm Type

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