Safeguarding natural resources and energy is essential to ensure food security for future
generations. Given the increase of published papers in the agricultural field applying Data …

Many organisations are composed of multiple departments connected either in series or in
parallel, which may be further decomposed into a number of functions arranged in a …

Within the constraints of the EU Nitrates and Water Framework Directives, controlling and
managing nutrient transfers to water from excessive nutrient use on agricultural land is a …

This paper aims to evaluate the technical efficiency and the total factor productivity change
of dairy farms in EU countries. Analyses were carried out in order to determine which …

Benchmarking techniques have been one of the main tools used by National Regulatory
Authorities (NRA) to provide reliable information to define the efficiency targets for regulated …

Data envelopment analysis is used to calculate technical, allocative, economic, and scale
efficiencies for fields enrolled in the University of Arkansas Rice Research Verification …

This study examined the effects of climatic conditions on dairy farm productivity using panel
data for the state of Wisconsin along with alternative stochastic frontier models. A noteworthy …

This article measures and explains the technical efficiency (TE) of 371 dairy farms located in
17 districts in East African countries. Three output and 10 input types were used to calculate …

In this paper, a two‐step procedure is applied in order to investigate technical efficiency and
its determinants in the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry for the period 1984 …

Non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and parametric Stochastic Frontier
Analysis (SFA) have become very popular in the analysis of productive efficiency. This study …