Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector

Part I Efficiency Measures and Methods 

 1 Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector: The Beginning

Emiliana Silva, Armando Mendes and Jorge Santos 

 2 Review of Frontier Models and Efficiency Analysis: A Parametric Approach 

Ana Sampaio 

3 Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis

 Jorge Santos, Elsa Rosário Negas and Luís Cavique Santos

 4 Superefficiency and Multiplier Adjustment in Data Envelopment Analysis 

 Jorge Santos, Luís Cavique Santos, Armando Mendes 

 Part II Farm Efficiency Applications

5 An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in Azores Dairy Farms

Emiliana Silva, Amílcar Arzubi and Julio Berbel 

 6 Animal Grazing System Efficiency 

Emiliana Silva, Carlos Santos and Armando Mendes 

 7 Technical Efficiency of the Spanish Dairy Processing Industry: Do Size and Exporting Matter? 

 Magdalena Kapelko and Alfons Oude Lansink 

 8 Inefficiency in Animal Production – A Parametric Approach

Emiliana Silva and Fátima Venâncio 

9 Azorean Agriculture Efficiency by PAR

 Armando B Mendes, Veska Noncheva and Emiliana Silva

10 Sustainable Tourism and Agriculture Multifunctionality by PAR: A Variable Selection Approach

Armando Mendes, Veska Noncheva and Emiliana Silva 

 11 The Importance of Subsidies in Azorean Dairy Farms Efficiency 

Emiliana Silva and Eusébio Marote

12 Multi-Ouput 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

13 Efficiency Assessment: Final Remarks

Jorge Santos, Emiliana Silva and Armando Mendes

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