Sustainable intensification pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing eco-efficiency of smallholder perennial cash crop production

Anja Heidenreich, Christian Grovermann, Irene Kadzere, Irene S. Egyir, Anne Muriuki, Joseph Bandanaa, Joseph Clottey, John Ndungu, Johan Blockeel, Adrian Muller, Matthias Stolze and Christian Schader

Agricultural Systems, 2022, vol. 195, issue C

Abstract: Eco-efficiency offers a promising approach for the sustainable intensification of production systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is widely used for eco-efficiency analyses, is however sensitive to outliers and the analysis of the influence of external factors in the second stage requires the separability assumption to hold. Order-m estimators are proposed to overcome those disadvantages, but have been rarely applied in eco-efficiency analysis.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Order-m frontiers; Eco-efficiency; Cocoa; Coffee; Macadamia; Mango (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103304

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