Efficiency measures in the agricultural sector :

Includes index

Efficiency measures in the agricultural sector : the beginning / Emiliana Silva, Armando B. Mendes, and Jorge Santos --
Review of frontier models and efficiency analysis : a parametric approach / Ana Sampaio --
Introduction to data envelopment analysis / Jorge Santos, Elsa Rosário Negas, and Luís Cavique Santos --
Superefficiency and multiplier adjustment in data envelopment analysis / Jorge Santos, Luís Cavique Santos, and Armando B. Mendes --
An application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in Azores dairy farms / Emiliana Silva, Amílcar Arzubi, and Julio Berbel --
Animal grazing system efficiency / Emiliana Silva, Carlos Santos, and Armando B. Mendes --
Technical efficiency of the Spanish dairy processing industry : do size and exporting matter? / Magdalena Kapelko and Alfons Oude Lansink --
Inefficiency in animal production : a parametric approach / Emiliana Silva and Fátima Venâncio --
Azorean agriculture efficiency by PAR / Armando B. Mendes, Veska Noncheva, and Emiliana Silva --
Sustainable tourism and agriculture multifunctionality by PAR : a variable selection approach / Armando B. Mendes, Veska Noncheva, and Emiliana Silva --
The importance of subsidies in Azorean dairy farms' efficiency / Emiliana Silva and Eusébio Marote --
Multi-output technical efficiency in the olive oil industry and its relation to the form of business organisation / Rafaela Dios-Palomares, José M. Martínez-Paz, and Angel Prieto --
Efficiency assessment : final remarks / Jorge Santos, Emiliana Silva, and Armando B. Mendes.

Adding to our toolkit for improving agricultural efficiency, this volume shows how to deploy techniques such as data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis in crop production, opening up a fruitful new arena that could profit from these methods