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Profitability and resource use efficiency of polyculture system in Andhra Pradesh
The current study has been undertaken to assess the profitability and efficiency of polyculture of Pangasius pangasius and Piaractus brachypomus ...
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Inland low saline shrimp culture in Andhra Pradesh: profitability and resource use efficiency
The study focused on investment, profitability, and input–output specific technical and scale efficiencies and suggested appropriately for its...
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Impact of participation in social capital networks on the technical efficiency of maize producers in Southwest Nigeria
Maize is a staple food and one of the important sources of starch for many households. However, maize yield in Nigeria remains one of the lowest in...
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DEA-Based Efficiency Assessment of Greenhouse Red-Leaf Lettuce Production in Iran Using Vertical Hydroponic Method
The aim of the present study is the efficiency assessment of 23 greenhouses of red-leaf lettuce based on the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method...
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Scale elasticity and technical efficiency analysis in the European forest sector: a stochastic value-based approach
This paper is the first to examine both technical efficiency and scale elasticity of the forest sector across different European (EU) regions in an...
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An Empirical Investigation on the Relationship Between Fertilizer Inputs and Production Efficiency in the Main Sugarcane Planting Areas in China
Reducing fertilizer inputs and improving the sustainability of sugarcane are important to the well development of China's sugar industry. In the...
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Inefficiency of laying hens farms in Benin: an input directional distance function approach
BackgroundIn Benin, the productivity of poultry production systems is a major concern. This paper aims first to estimate the cost, technical and...
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Efficiency tests for screening production strategies in a lettuce-juvenile tilapia aquaponics system in Brazil
This article assesses strategies for managing the economic returns to an aquaponics production system with joint products of lettuce and tilapia....
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Evaluation of technical efficiency of some rain-fed cereal and legume crops production in Syria: does crisis matter?
BackgroundSyria is a develo** country whose economy is still dominated by the agricultural sector. The agricultural sector is considered as the...
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Allocative Efficiency and Property Rights in Ecological Economics: Why We Need to Distinguish Between Man-Made Capital and Natural Resources
This chapter explains why, in economics regarding property rights, we should distinguish between man-made products and natural (nature-made)...
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Measuring differences in efficiency in waste collection and disposal services from the EU targets in Campania municipalities
The study analyses the economic and environmental performance of the 353 municipalities in the region of Campania in waste disposal and collection...
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Estimating the Input Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Bangladesh: An Application of the Primal System of Stochastic Frontier Approach
Rice is the staple food for half of the world’s population, and with the increase in population, it will be necessary to supply more rice in the...
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The effect of farm size on economic efficiency: a case study of Vietnamese pangasius farms
Despite an expansion of production, pangasius farmers have experienced economic challenges in Vietnam. The aim of this study was to identify optimum...
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Analysis of technical efficiency in maize production in Guji Zone: stochastic frontier model
BackgroundThe Guji Zone in particular and Oromia region in general have a huge potential for crop production that can even contribute for the country...
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Factors influencing economic efficiency of milk production among small-scale dairy farms in Mukurweini, Nyeri County, Kenya
This paper highlights the factors likely to influence the economic efficiency of small-scale dairy farms in Mukurweini, Nyeri County, Kenya. A total...
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Additive predictions of aboveground stand biomass in commercial logs and harvest residues for rotation age Pinus radiata plantations in New South Wales, Australia
Two systems of additive equations were developed to predict aboveground stand level biomass in log products and harvest residue from routinely...
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Farm adaptation to stricter nutrient management legislation and the implications for future livestock production: a review
Stricter nutrient surplus and lower emission targets are placing adaptation pressure on livestock farms in European countries, while the public...
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Gesell’s Solution to Achieve the SDGs
All but one of the UN sustainability goals are either meant to address unsustainability in stricto sensu (goals 9, 11–15) or inequality (goals 1–8,...
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Gesell’s Solution
Is interest a ‘necessary evil’? How can we make money flow without interest being necessary as a reward for parting with liquidity? German-Argentine...
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Conclusion
Despite all that has changed in the game of cricket in Australia over the past one hundred years, remarkably much of it remains the same today....