Essays about: "FADN"
Found 5 essays containing the word FADN.
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1. Assessing the Eco-efficiency of Swedish Crop Farms and the Role of Subsidies : a Directional Distance Function Approach
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : The agriculture sector’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its increasing vulnerability to the effects of climate change warrants assessments considering not only on-farm productivity but also the industry’s environmental sustainability. Utilizing the concept of eco-efficiency, this study analyzes the environmental performance of Swedish crop farms by incorporating farm-level GHG emissions as an undesirable output in the production function. READ MORE
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2. Determinants of Technical efficiency of Swedish Beef Farms : a Stochastic Frontier Analysis
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : This thesis presents an estimation of the farm level technical efficiency of Swedish farmers specialized in beef cattle production. The aim is to estimate a score between 0 and 1 which illustrates how efficient the Swedish beef farmers are given the technical assets available. READ MORE
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3. Eco-efficiency in Swedish dairy farms : incorporating sustainability into the measure of eco-efficiency
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : This thesis introduces a novel method to incorporate absolute values of GHG emissions into the measure of eco-efficiency. The aim is to assess eco-efficiency in Swedish dairy farms and adjusting the scores towards a threshold of absolute levels of GHG emissions using the proposed method. READ MORE
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4. Farmers not Farming? An empirical study of the elimination of the mandatory set-aside policy in the EU.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis evaluates European farmers which were subject to mandatory set-aside entitlements for many years. Mandatory set-aside of land, required farmers to leave arable land out of production to be eligible for subsidies. READ MORE
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5. Macedonian agriculture : preconditions for development of the agro-sector in Macedonia towards EU accession
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : The focus of the thesis is: how conditions for agriculture in the Republic of Macedonia today may form the basis for development of the agricultural sector towards conditions needed for future accession into the European Union. The method for investigating this question has been to look at newly available farm monitoring system (FMS) data from Macedonia. READ MORE