In the paper we investigate relative productivity levels and decompose productivity change for European agriculture … between 2004 and 2013. More specifically (1) we contribute to the debate whether agricultural Total Factor Productivity (TFP … O’Donnell (2008), using country level panel data from the Economic Accounts for Agriculture for 23 EU member states. The …

This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture … Analysis with variable returns to scale, and related to a Malmquist index of total factor productivity and to selected policy …

This paper aims to evaluate the technical efficiency and the total factor productivity change of dairy farms in EU … their own technical input. The estimation of total factor productivity and its components suggest that the European milk … sector has suffered a decline in productivity. This means that external factors, independent of the farmers’ capacity to use …