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Title: | Assessment of Environment Impact of CAP Reforms on European Agricultural Production Efficiency |
Authors: | Serrao, Amilcar J |
Keywords: | Data Envelopment Analysis Undesirable outputs Goal Programming Common Agricultural Policy |
Issue Date: | 24-Jul-2011 |
Publisher: | AgEcon Search - University of Minnesota - Agricultural Applied Economics Association |
Abstract: | The studies of performance and production efficiency have ignored additional products
of most transformation processes classified as undesirable outputs. Without the
inclusion of the undesirable outputs, the efficiency measurement is a purely technical
measure, and it does not account for the interaction of the system with the environment
and the impact of policy decisions on the system. Moreover, there are technological
dependencies between the desirable and the undesirable outputs which have to be
included in the analytical tools used to measure efficiency.
The relationships between the desirable and the undesirable outputs motivate the
exploration of new areas of the measurement of efficiency to incorporate policy
decisions and address new issues. This research develops a formulation that uses goal
programming in conjunction with Data Envelopment analysis – known as GoDEA
approach – to deal with the conflict between the desirable and the undesirable outputs.
This approach is used to assess the environment impact of the Agenda 2000 and the
2003 Common Agricultural Policy reform on agricultural production in fifteen
European countries.
Model results show that the 2003 CAP reform strengthens environmental policies and
has a better performance than the Agenda 2000 for some European countries. The North
and Central European countries have been dealing better with environmental issues than
the Mediterranean countries. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/4192 |
Type: | article |
Appears in Collections: | GES - Artigos em Livros de Actas/Proceedings
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