efficiency of farming. It was demonstrated that land lease was a more efficient and cheaper method of increasing farm area …

Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution …Sind Verbesserungen in der Effizienz im Umgang mit den natürlichen Ressourcen der Schlüssel für eine Nachhaltige …

Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution …

The vast majority of the efficiency and productivity measurement literature has been based on the static viewpoint of … the firm. Few studies have developed the dynamic analog of static efficiency measurement, introducing the notions of long …-run efficiency and inefficiency persistence. However, these few existing dynamic efficiency studies have not provided any empirical …

significant effects on farm efficiency and, consequently, on the economic results of the farms. The goal of this study was to … stochastic cost frontiers for each group of farms to calculate their levels of efficiency. The methodology used in this study … extensive ones, suggesting a positive relationship between intensification and efficiency …