Baráth Lajos, Bakucs Zoltán, Benedek Zsófia, Fertő Imre, Nagy Zsuzsanna, Vígh Enikő, Debrenti Edith, Fogarasi József
HUN-REN, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of Economics, 1097 Budapest, Hungary.
HUN-REN, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of Economics, 1097 Budapest, Hungary; Óbuda University, Budapest, Tavaszmező u. 15-17, 1086, Hungary.
Sci Total Environ. 2024 Jan 1;906:167518. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167518. Epub 2023 Oct 7.
The literature on the effectiveness of Agri-Environmental Schemes focuses mainly on the environmental effects; only a few studies have focused on economic aspects. The number of papers that address ecological and economic outcomes simultaneously is even more limited. In this paper, we apply the concept of eco-efficiency to integrate these two factors. The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of participation in the agri-environmental scheme of Hungarian field crop farmers in terms of eco-efficiency. To make unbiased and consistent comparisons we use advances from aggregation and bootstrap theory in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) context. The results indicate that there exists a significant potential for enhancing eco-efficiency in Hungarian crop farms. Furthermore, our results reveal that, in terms of eco-efficiency, perceived as the relationship of farm income to pesticide, fertilizers and energy use, no significant differences exist between participating and non-participating farmers. The results are robust to different methods. Our results pose questions about the efficacy of the Agri-Environmental Scheme.
关于农业环境计划有效性的文献主要关注环境影响；只有少数研究关注经济方面。同时探讨生态和经济成果的论文数量更为有限。在本文中，我们应用生态效率的概念来整合这两个因素。本文的目的是从生态效率的角度分析匈牙利大田作物农民参与农业环境计划的影响。为了进行无偏且一致的比较，我们在数据包络分析（DEA）的背景下运用了聚合和自抽样理论的进展。结果表明，匈牙利农作物农场在提高生态效率方面存在巨大潜力。此外，我们的结果显示，就生态效率而言，即农场收入与农药、化肥和能源使用之间的关系，参与计划和未参与计划的农民之间没有显著差异。这些结果对于不同方法具有稳健性。我们的结果对农业环境计划的成效提出了质疑。
