productivity and efficiency. More knowledge about what determines part-time farming and whether farm productivity and efficiency … examining how off-farm work influences productivity and technical efficiency at the farm level. An unbalanced panel data set …. Average technical efficiency was found to be 79%. Farmers with low variability in farm revenue were found to be more …

This article analyzes the efficiency of Water Users Associations (WUA) in the Cap Bon region (Tunisia) and studies its … main determinants. The analysis is performed in two stages. First, the efficiency is measured via the nonparametric “Data … Envelopment Analysis” (DEA) technique. The DEA models are constructed not only to assess the overall WUA efficiency but also to …

Pure Technical Efficiency scores of Austrian dairy farms are estimated econometrically on the basis of data envelopment …-level” efficiency. Using overall efficiency for the calculation of possible savings from a move to the frontier will overestimate these … savings and underestimate the efficiency of a farm relative to the conditions in which it operates. …

impacts of the reform on farms’ technical efficiency. Results show that the reform has shifted outwards the production … impact on technical efficiency. …

order to trigger fine payments. Hence, efficiency needs an excessive standard. …

efficiency gains over the period 1995-2005. The findings reveal some total factor productivity growth associated with … deregulation and scale efficiency improvement largely from mergers amongst the local banks. …