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Explaining Differences in Farm Sustainability: Evidence from Flemish Dairy Farms

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  • Van Passel, Steven
  • Mathijs, Erik
  • Van Huylenbroeck, Guido

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An important objective of European agricultural policy is to have a sustainable, efficient farming sector, which uses environmentally-friendly production methods. Agricultural policy makers aim to combine strong economic performance with a sustainable use of natural resources. There is thus a need for tools allowing quantification of farm sustainability as well as for empirical research assessing, analysing and explaining differences in farm sustainability. Using a large dataset of dairy farms, we apply the concept of sustainable value creation to benchmark farm sustainability performance. An effect model captures the determinants of the differences in sustainability among Flemish dairy farms. Our empirical model shows that both managerial and structural farm characteristics are significant in explaining differences in sustainability performance and that the most important factors are farm size, farmer's age and the dependency on support payments. Furthermore, we observe a high sustainability performance on farms with higher levels of economic efficiency.

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  • Van Passel, Steven & Mathijs, Erik & Van Huylenbroeck, Guido, 2006. "Explaining Differences in Farm Sustainability: Evidence from Flemish Dairy Farms," 2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia 25262, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaae06:25262
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.25262
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    1. Eva Richterová & Martin Richter & Zlata Sojková, 2021. "Regional eco-efficiency of the agricultural sector in V4 regions, its dynamics in time and decomposition on the technological and pure technical eco-efficiency change," Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy, Institute of Economic Research, vol. 16(3), pages 553-576, September.
    2. Burja Camelia & Burja Vasile, 2016. "The Economic Farm Size And Sustainable Value Disparities Between Romania And The Eu States," Annals - Economy Series, Constantin Brancusi University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1, pages 50-57, February.
    3. Grzelak Aleksander, 2019. "Accumulation of assets in farms covered by the FADN farm accountancy system in Poland – the economic and eco-efficiency context," Management, Sciendo, vol. 23(2), pages 281-294, December.
    4. Xabier Díaz de Otálora & Agustín del Prado & Federico Dragoni & Fernando Estellés & Barbara Amon, 2021. "Evaluating Three-Pillar Sustainability Modelling Approaches for Dairy Cattle Production Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-14, June.

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    Livestock Production/Industries;

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