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DOI	10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117609
	Evaluating input use efficiency in agriculture through a stochastic frontier production: An application on a case study in Apulia (Italy)
	Benedetti, Ilaria 1; Branca, Giacomo 2; Zucaro, Raffaella 3
通讯作者	Benedetti, Ilaria
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
ISSN	0959-6526
EISSN	1879-1786
出版年	2019
卷号	236
英文摘要	Water is considered the most critical resource for sustainable agricultural development worldwide. Water scarcity has become an issue, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. There is the need to develop efficient management options to reduce water consumption and waste. In order to measure irrigated crop technical efficiency, a stochastic frontier production method - in which the inefficiency component is heteroscedastic - is used with the aim to assess what crop type and production technique revealed highest efficiency. The model is applied to a case study in southern Italy by using 2016 data from the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network. Our results show that the assumption of heteroscedasticity in the one-sided error term in the stochastic frontier is valid: individual farms' characteristics critically influence technical efficiency. Processing tomato is the most efficient crop production system; organic farms tend to have a lower level of technical efficiency compared to conventional farms; and fertigation system is found to increase the level of technical efficiency. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Water technical efficiency Stochastic frontier production function Sustainable crop production Management irrigation
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Italy
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000483414000046
WOS关键词	WATER-USE EFFICIENCY ; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS ; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY ; IRRIGATION EFFICIENCY ; PRODUCTION RISK ; EXOGENOUS VARIABLES ; PERFORMANCE ; FARMS ; DETERMINANTS ; CULTIVATION
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
EI主题词	2019-11-01
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/310721
作者单位	1.Univ Tuscia, Dept Econ Engn Soc & Business Org, Via Paradiso 37, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy; 2.Univ Tuscia, Dept Econ Engn Soc & Business Org, Via Paradiso 47, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy; 3.Council Agr Res & Econ, Ctr Policy & Bio Econ, Via Po 14, I-00198 Rome, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Benedetti, Ilaria,Branca, Giacomo,Zucaro, Raffaella. Evaluating input use efficiency in agriculture through a stochastic frontier production: An application on a case study in Apulia (Italy)[J],2019,236.
APA	Benedetti, Ilaria,Branca, Giacomo,&Zucaro, Raffaella.(2019).Evaluating input use efficiency in agriculture through a stochastic frontier production: An application on a case study in Apulia (Italy).JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION,236.
MLA	Benedetti, Ilaria,et al."Evaluating input use efficiency in agriculture through a stochastic frontier production: An application on a case study in Apulia (Italy)".JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION 236(2019).