What is it about?
We analyze the efficiency of organic pasture farming in Germany using data from 1994/95 to 2005/06. Five inputs and one output are analyzed by means of a stochastic frontier production function and we investigate factors that drive efficiency. The results are reflect on the background of knowledge and regional heterogeneity.
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Why is it important?
We directly link our efficiency results to regional clusters of organic farming. We find that especially the farm-clusters in southern Germany are highly efficient, whereas the northern and eastern clusters are less efficient. We also investigate the efficiency during the conversion period and we find that farm-efficiency increases five years after the conversion to organic farming.
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This is probably the publication, where I spent the longest in order to learn diverse methods and to finally create the results, which are now published.
Dr Sebastian Lakner
Georg-August University Göttingen
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This page is a summary of: Technical efficiency of organic pasture farming in Germany: The role of location economics and of specific knowledge, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, August 2011, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1742170511000330.
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