Analyse de l'éco-efficience du secteur laitier réunionnais : confrontation des objectifs productiviste et environnementaliste
Various methodological improvements in production function modelling allow the integration of undesirable outputs, the distinction between stakeholders? objective-function and the sectoral aggregation of individual technologies. This paper gathers these concepts in order to assess the eco-efficiency of the dairy sector in La Réunion. Our assessment compare two objectives seemingly opposed: the productivist approach and the environmentalist approach. According to the productivist approach, focused on the milk production maximization, inefficiency reduction could create an increase of 54 % of the dairy production, without additional undesirable emissions. At the same time, a better environmental management leads to an important potential decrease of undesirable outputs as greenhouse gases or nitrogen surpluses (? 46 %), given the current milk production. Unexpectedly, the two approaches lead to similar values of environmental indicators: Nitrogen surplus per liter of milk and greenhouse gases per liter of milk. On an insular territory as La Réunion, impacted by the food self-sufficiency issue of overseas department, efficiency sectoral analysis appears to be a powerful tool to support decision plan, as it allows an assessment of optimal allocation of local resources and an optimization of imported materials for agricultural sector.
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2013
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Authors: | Berre, David ; Blancard, Stéphane ; Boussemart, Jean-Philippe ; Leleu, Hervé ; Tillard, Emmanuel |
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Revue d'économie politique. - Dalloz. - Vol. 123.2013, 4, p. 549-572
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Dalloz |
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