The Use of Alternative Measures of Farm Size in Analysing the Size and Efficiency Relationship

Lund, P. J.

doi:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1983.tb00988.x

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“…In agriculture, there is no consensus on a single indicator for farm size, since it depends on the types of production and technology used on the farm (Carlin and Crecink, 1979;Lund, 1983). For this reason, three farm clusters are created on the basis of four size indicators: 6 UAA; total labour used on the farm; number of livestock equivalent units on the farm; and the value of fixed assets in real terms.…”

Section: Analysis Of the Impact Of Subsidiesmentioning

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Common Agricultural Policy support, technical efficiency and productivity change in French agriculture

Latruffe¹,

Desjeux²

2016

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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This paper investigates how the various changes in the policy supporting agriculture in the European Union, i.e. the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and various types of subsidies (investment, production and rural development) affected the technical efficiency and productivity change of farms in France between 1990 and 2006. Three types of farming-field crop, dairy and beef cattle-are considered. Comparison of efficiency across periods indicates a significant reduction in efficiency in the period following the first CAP reform (1992 MacSharry reform) but an improvement in efficiency change. Econometric results related to the effect of subsidies on efficiency scores (with fixed effect models) and productivity change indices (with ordinary least squares) give ambiguous findings. The effect of a particular type of subsidy was found to be negative or positive depending on the sample's production orientation and on the performance considered. Several methodological recommendations are drawn from the analysis for future research.

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Section: Analysis Of the Impact Of Subsidiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Common Agricultural Policy support, technical efficiency and productivity change in French agriculture

Latruffe¹,

Desjeux²

2016

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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“…As Lund (1983) notes, there has been no generally accepted measure of firm size in the economics literature to guide the choice in agricultural studies. As Lund (1983) notes, there has been no generally accepted measure of firm size in the economics literature to guide the choice in agricultural studies.…”

Section: Economies Of Size and The 'Optimal Farm Size' Debatementioning

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Farm productivity and efficiency in the CEE applicant countries: a synthesis of results

Gorton

Davidova

2004

Agricultural Economics

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This article draws together results from farm efficiency studies in six Central and East European countries that are part of the EU enlargement process. The main questions addressed concern whether there is a clear superiority of one organisational type, namely, family farms, over corporate structures (production co-operatives and various types of farming companies) and the nature of the relationship between size and farm efficiency. Results from empirical research show that there is no clear cut evidence of corporate farms being inherently less efficient for all farming activities than family farms. Where significant differences have been found in favour of family farms against the average corporate farm, the best corporate farms still tend to perform as well as the best family farms. As far as size in concerned, in countries in transition where small family farms are well established and managed continuously by the present farm household, they appear to be less inefficient compared to larger cohorts as against countries where small family farms are a relatively new phenomenon.

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“…Lund and Price (1998) and Lund (1983) Thus, when we use the term small farm in the rest of the paper, it should be interpreted against the above arguments related to farm size. The bottom-line is that a small farm is a relative concept-relative to the particular ecological region and soil quality and also relative to the particular farming industry.…”

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Defining Small-Scale Farmers in the South African Context

Kirsten

Zÿl

1998

Agrekon

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The Use of Alternative Measures of Farm Size in Analysing the Size and Efficiency Relationship

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Common Agricultural Policy support, technical efficiency and productivity change in French agriculture

Common Agricultural Policy support, technical efficiency and productivity change in French agriculture

Farm productivity and efficiency in the CEE applicant countries: a synthesis of results

Defining Small-Scale Farmers in the South African Context

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