Opportunity costs of providing crop diversity in organic and conventional farming: would targeted environmental policies make economic sense?

Sipiläinen, Timo; Huhtala, Anni

doi:10.1093/erae/jbs029

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“…As to farm diversification, Davidova and Latruffe [68] estimated the technical efficiency of farms by DEA during a period of transition in the economy in the Czech Republic. Sipiläinen and Huhtala [69] derived shadow values of crop diversity in organic and conventional Finnish farms by DEA. Kim et al [70] investigated the productivity of specialized and diversified rice farms in Korea, but tourism activity was not included in that analysis.…”

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Assessing Managerial Efficiency of Educational Tourism in Agriculture: Case of Dairy Farms in Japan

Ohe

2017

Sustainability

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Many rural areas face difficulty in how to motivate farmers to embark on diversified activities, such as tourism, while raising managerial efficiency. Thus, this paper conceptually and empirically evaluated how a farmer's identity correlates with managerial efficiency since the connection between the two has not been explored fully. We have addressed this issue through examining farmers' efforts in providing an emerging new educational tourism service by focusing on the Educational Dairy Farms in Japan. Conceptually, this paper classified farmers' identity into two types: traditional identity as a simple farm producer offering an educational service as a volunteer, and, enlarged identity, which is oriented toward viability of a new service activity. Empirically, data envelopment analysis revealed that those with the enlarged identity realized a higher managerial efficiency although there was much room for improvement in overall managerial efficiency. Consequently, support measures with a wider perspective that include identity issues should be designed for capacity building of farmers who are conducting tourism.

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Assessing Managerial Efficiency of Educational Tourism in Agriculture: Case of Dairy Farms in Japan

Ohe

2017

Sustainability

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“…The losses of revenue originating from the decreased agricultural potential in such conditions are basically expected to be compensated for by subsidisation. According to Sipiläinen and Huhtala (2013), the general public largely views agri-environmental support as subsidy programmes to compensate for the costs of conservation measures. In the present study, the success of Pillar II agricultural support in compensating farmers was evaluated through a comparative analysis observing PTE and CTE, where farm efficiency is observed in terms of farm ability to generate output/revenue, i.e.…”

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“…In terms of compensating for costs, Sipiläinen and Huhtala (2013) claim that it is commonly accepted that agri-environmental policies compensate farmers for the costs of conservation measures.…”

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Pure and compensated efficiency of Swedish dairy farms

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Rabinowicz

Surry

2016

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The compensatory effect of environmental subsidies for agri-environmental output constraints was evaluated through a comparative analysis observing the ‘pure’ efficiency, as a benchmark for prevailing production conditions, and the ‘compensated’ efficiency, as a proxy indicator of the compensation. An unbalanced data panel covering 3578 Swedish dairy farms in the period 2002-2012 was used. The analysis showed that in the study period, environmental farm support decreased the differences in farm revenue generated by agri-environmental output constraints in Sweden. However, the environmental support distribution did not succeed in meeting regional needs, so difficulties in farmers’ ability to generate output in southern and central forest and valley areas of Sweden were visible. Furthermore, the environmental agricultural support had only a partial subsidisation effect on ‘green’ farm management practices, with full compensation being achieved for organic and capital-extensive farming, whereas low livestock density farming was not sufficiently compensated. This analysis reveals incentives with policy implications for farm economic performance and provides direct input to future policy recommendations for environmental support allocation.

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“…Nesse sentido, as florestas representariam um custo (de oportunidade) para os produtores. Esse custo tem sido calculado na literatura por meio de duas metodologias principais, em que: (i) utilizam indicadores de lucratividade e comparam a rentabilidade da produção agropecuária quando a propriedade conserva a reserva legal e essa não apresenta uso econômico, ou comparam propriedades que praticam o manejo sustentável com propriedades que utilizam toda a área do estabelecimento para a produção agropecuária (sem ter reserva legal) ou apresentam área de reserva legal menor do que o exigido em lei (AZZONI e ISAI, 1994;BACHA, 2005;CAMPOS e BACHA, 2013;CARNEIRO, 2005;IGARI, TAMBOSI e PIVELLO, 2009;FASIABEN et al, 2011); (ii) estimam o custo de oportunidade de ter a reserva legal por meio de uma função distância, considerando a perda da produção ocasionada pela mudança na combinação dos insumos necessária para a redução do impacto ambiental e incorporam desperdícios no uso dos insumos por parte dos produtores (COELLI, LAUWERS e HUYLENBROECK, 2007;HUHTALA e MARKLUND, 2008;SIPILÄINEN e HUHTALA, 2013;ZHOU, ANG e POH, 2006).…”

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“…Acrescenta-se às críticas do parágrafo anterior que, devido à informação assimétrica, o regulador não necessariamente conhece o custo de conservação dos fazendeiros advindo das diversas políticas ambientais (SIPILÄINEN e HUHTALA, 2013). Assim, o padrão de regulação final é fortemente influenciado pelos limites experimentais (ZOFÍO e PRIETO, 2001).…”

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O Custo Privado da Reserva Legal para os Produtores Agropecuários de São Paulo e Mato Grosso nos Anos de 1995 e 2006

Campos

Bacha

2016

Rev. Econ. Sociol. Rural

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Resumo: Apesar de a reserva legal gerar benefícios ambientais e ecológicos, ela implica custos de oportunidade ao produtor agrícola. O objetivo deste artigo é estimar, por meio do modelo de folgas proposto por Zhou, Ang e Poh (2006), o custo de oportunidade da manutenção da reserva legal para os municípios dos estados de São Paulo e Mato Grosso nos anos de 1995 e 2006 (os dois últimos censos agropecuários). A metodologia considera o produtor médio por município e ajusta o número de municípios entre os anos citados segundo a proposta de Paiva (2007Paiva ( , 2008. Entre os resultados obtidos destacam-se: (a) a eficiência técnica e a técnica ambiental são pequenas nos dois estados analisados, mas cresceram entre os anos citados; (b) o custo de oportunidade de manutenção da reserva legal por estabelecimento é menor em São Paulo do que em Mato Grosso (R$ 23.878 e R$ 48.353, respectivamente, em 2006), mas o custo por hectare é 2,22 vezes maior em São Paulo do que em Mato Grosso; (c) a disposição desses custos em mapas permite observar relações de similaridade ou não entre municípios vizinhos, o que permitirá, no futuro, explorar relações espaciais entre esses custos. Trabalhos futuros poderão, também, atualizar a análise deste artigo à medida que novos dados censitários estejam disponíveis. Palavras-chaves:

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Opportunity costs of providing crop diversity in organic and conventional farming: would targeted environmental policies make economic sense?

Cited by 32 publications

References 57 publications

Assessing Managerial Efficiency of Educational Tourism in Agriculture: Case of Dairy Farms in Japan

Assessing Managerial Efficiency of Educational Tourism in Agriculture: Case of Dairy Farms in Japan

Pure and compensated efficiency of Swedish dairy farms

O Custo Privado da Reserva Legal para os Produtores Agropecuários de São Paulo e Mato Grosso nos Anos de 1995 e 2006

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