Measuring the impact of extreme weather phenomena on total factor productivity of General Cropping farms in East Anglia

Gadanakis, Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7441-970X and Areal, F. J. (2018) Measuring the impact of extreme weather phenomena on total factor productivity of General Cropping farms in East Anglia. International Journal of Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Business Models, 3 (1). pp. 1-22. ISSN 2379-7509

Abstract/Summary

One of the main challenges of climate change on agriculture in UK is how to adapt to the potential changes to the availability of water. Changes in rainfall distribution may potentially lead to an increase in drought frequency, magnitude and duration. In this research a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a Malmquist Index (MI) are combined with a double bootstrap methodology to measure changes in Total Factor Productivity of general cropping farms in East Anglia. More specifically, the DEA technique was used to measure the year by year efficiency score for the farms in the sample and the MI and its components used to derive information on productivity over time. Data for the input – output models was obtained from the Farm Business Survey. Climate change is taken into consideration by using data for water cost as a proxy indicator of water consumption per farm. Results reveal changes in total, technical and scale efficiency and provide information on how the 2011 drought affected the TFP of the farms in the sample.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/76610
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Farm Management Unit Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Agri-Food Economics & Marketing
Uncontrolled Keywords	DEA, Malmquist Index, Technical Efficiency Change, Climate Change, Sustainable Intensification, Farm Business Survey, Total Factor Productivity, Bootstrapped Malmquist Index, Agriculture
Publisher	IGI Global
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