Marginal Trade-Offs for Improved Agro-Ecological Efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Agronomy

Ali Raza¹  TongGuang Ji¹  Masood Ahmed²  Judit Oláh³  József Popp⁴  Usman Akbar⁵ 

[1] College of Economics and Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China;Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Kotli 11100, Pakistan;Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary;Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Szent István University, 2100 Gödöllő, Hungary;School of Economics and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China;

关键词: data envelopment analysis;    ecological efficiency;    marginal rate;    trade-offs;   

DOI  :  10.3390/agronomy11020365

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Today's agricultural management decisions impact food security and sustainable ecosystems, even when operating with back-to-basic operations. In such endeavors, policymakers usually need a quantitative tool, such as trade-offs margins, to effectively adjust resource consumption or production. This paper applies the weighted slack-based measurement (SBM-DEA) program to 136 developing countries’ agricultural performance. First, it finds the current agricultural efficiency and then makes marginal trade-offs on desirable-output variables (such as crop yield and forest area) to see the effective changes in undesirable-output (such as methane and nitrous oxide emissions). The results show that choosing effective marginal trade-offs does not deteriorate the relative efficiency of the decision-making units (DMUs) below the efficient frontier line. Thus, such a method enables the decision-makers to determine the best marginal trade-off points to reach the optimal efficiencies and decide which output factor needs special brainstorming to design effective policy.

【 授权许可】

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