<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gaspar, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mesías, F. J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Escribano, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pulido, F.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Assessing the technical efficiency of extensive livestock farming systems in Extremadura, Spain</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Livestock Science</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data envelopment analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dehesa</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Extensive livestock farming</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Technical efficiency</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1871141308001558</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">121</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7 - 14</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The technical efficiencies of a sample of extensive dehesa farms were analyzed using a nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. This technique creates efficiency indices by comparing the performance of each farm with the best production practices observed, which define the efficiency or production frontier. The influence of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies (taken as an output) on the farms' efficiency was determined. The measurement of the efficiency has taken place from inputs per hectare thus allowing to make a different interpretation from the scale efficiency that, instead of referring to the dimension of the farm, is referred to the intensification. Thanks to the input-oriented analysis it can be established that the farms could maintain similar production levels by introducing a 30% reduction of their inputs (e.g. with breeds better adapted to the environment, a better use of the own produced pastures to reduce the amount of feedstuff to be bought, reductions in manpower…). Those highly intensified dehesas have shown decreasing inefficiencies of scale, whereas the least intensified have shown increasing inefficiencies. With a second stage analysis, different types of farms were identified as corresponding to greater or lesser efficiencies. It has been identified that the group of farms with high stocking rates have the greatest efficiencies indices. With respect to the livestock orientation, the farms with a livestock mix including pig were the most efficient. Modifications in the stocking rate, allowing an adequate use of the natural resources available, can be a solution to improve the efficiency of dehesa farms. In addition mixed livestock farming is another useful tool towards achieving increased efficiency, and a reduced dependence on subsidies.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;publisher: Elsevier B.V.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gaspar, P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mesías, F J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Escribano, M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pulido, F</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Assessing the technical efficiency of extensive livestock farming systems in Extremadura, Spain</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Livestock Science</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data envelopment analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dehesa</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Extensive livestock farming</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Technical efficiency</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Elsevier B.V.</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">121</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7-14</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The technical efficiencies of a sample of extensive dehesa farms were analyzed using a nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. This technique creates efficiency indices by comparing the performance of each farm with the best production practices observed, which define the efficiency or production frontier. The influence of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies (taken as an output) on the farms' efficiency was determined. The measurement of the efficiency has taken place from inputs per hectare thus allowing to make a different interpretation from the scale efficiency that, instead of referring to the dimension of the farm, is referred to the intensification. Thanks to the input-oriented analysis it can be established that the farms could maintain similar production levels by introducing a 30% reduction of their inputs (e.g. with breeds better adapted to the environment, a better use of the own produced pastures to reduce the amount of feedstuff to be bought, reductions in manpower…). Those highly intensified dehesas have shown decreasing inefficiencies of scale, whereas the least intensified have shown increasing inefficiencies. With a second stage analysis, different types of farms were identified as corresponding to greater or lesser efficiencies. It has been identified that the group of farms with high stocking rates have the greatest efficiencies indices. With respect to the livestock orientation, the farms with a livestock mix including pig were the most efficient. Modifications in the stocking rate, allowing an adequate use of the natural resources available, can be a solution to improve the efficiency of dehesa farms. In addition mixed livestock farming is another useful tool towards achieving increased efficiency, and a reduced dependence on subsidies.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Castillo Quero, M</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eficiencia técnica de la producción de vacuno de carne en la dehesa</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Revista Española de estudios agrosociales y pesqueros</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Beef production</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mechanisms to differentiate production.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Technical efficiency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">«dehesa system»</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">212</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">139-154</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">{The purpose of the paper is to estimate the technical efficiency in cattle farms of the region of Pedroches, in the north of the province of Cordoba where the deiaesa is the normal exten- sive production system. The analysis of the causes of the efficienc}' allows us to demonstrate if the breeding farms which are integrated in a feeding and marketing co-operative which sells the meat with a qualitv label (Covap) are more efficient. The used methodology con- sists of the estimation of a non parametric frontier function DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) from a survey of 50 cattle farms made in that region in 2002. The results show that the farms that arrange a more efficiency level are more intensive (livestock density and mechanization), that breed but also feed the calves, have less subsidies in their incomes, and their farmers are younger and have higher education. In other way, significative efficiency differences were not found between integrated beef farms and not integrated.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>