Reconciling productivity, profitability and sustainability of small-holder sugarcane farms: A combined life cycle and data envelopment analysis

Linsheng Yang, Yifan Zhou, Bo Meng, Haojie Li, Jian Zhan, Huaye Xiong, Huanyu Zhao, Wenfeng Cong, Xiaozhong Wang, Wushuai Zhang, Prakash Lakshmanan, Yan Deng, Xiaojun Shi, Xinping Chen and Fusuo Zhang

Agricultural Systems, 2022, vol. 199, issue C

Abstract: Sustainable crop production is critical to address the grand challenges of climate change and food security, and eco-efficiency is increasingly used to assess systems sustainability. Sugarcane is a major high biomass, high input sugar and bioenergy crop but with a relatively large carbon footprint. China is the third largest sugarcane producing country. However, its production eco-efficiency remains unclear. A reliable assessment of sugarcane crop production eco-efficiency is necessary to identify the most important targets and effective strategies to improve its economic and environmental outputs.

Keywords: Sustainability; Eco-efficiency; LCA + DEA framework; Sugarcane (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103392

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