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Reducing Energy Costs in European Union Farms: Analysis of Efficiency

dc.contributor.authorMartinho, Vítor
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-06T09:36:01Z
dc.date.available2021-12-06T09:36:01Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractEfficiency in the use of resources is one of the most adjusted approaches towards achieving sustainable development in any economic sector, including agriculture. In fact, the current challenges surrounding the global farming sector are to maintain, or even, in some circumstances, increase production in such a way that it is compatible with the increasingly desirable goals for decarbonisation. Amongst the resources which are critical for sustainability within the agricultural sector, one of the most significant is energy, considering the needs of this resource to generate numerous farming production factors and the energetic requirements for its various activities. This is particularly important in the regions and countries in the European Union, due to the variety of contexts and the framework of the European agricultural policies, where the design of adjusted policy instruments is always a great task. In this way, the main objective of this research is to analyse farming efficiency in European Union agricultural regions, over the period 2013–2018. Considering this objective, data from the European Union Farm Accountancy Data Network were considered and first analysed through factor-cluster assessment, to obtain homogenous decision-making units, and then through data envelopment analysis. For the data envelopment analysis, a model with the inverse of the energy costs as output was considered. The main findings show that the savings in energy costs in European Union farms have impacts on the output as well as on other inputs.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-75839-4_3pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/6919
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSpringerpt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-75839-4_3pt_PT
dc.subjectFarm accountancy data networkpt_PT
dc.subjectFactor-cluster analysispt_PT
dc.subjectDecision-making unitspt_PT
dc.subjectData envelopment analysispt_PT
dc.titleReducing Energy Costs in European Union Farms: Analysis of Efficiencypt_PT
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oaire.citation.endPage113pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage85pt_PT
person.familyNamePereira Domingues Martinho
person.givenNameVítor João
person.identifier.ciencia-idF510-903F-51FA
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