Can a Pursuit of Productivity Be Reconciled with Sustainable Practices in Small-Scale Farming? – Evidence from central and eastern Europe

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dc.contributor.authorCzyżewski, Bazyli
dc.contributor.authorKryszak, Łukasz
dc.contributor.organizationUniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniuen
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-11T14:30:09Z
dc.date.available2023-07-11T14:30:09Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-15
dc.description.abstractSmall farms constitute the vast majority of agricultural holdings in the world. Therefore, there are the questions of how the small farm sector should evolve and whether economic and environmental goals can be pursued simultaneously. The main objective of this article is to identify potential improvements (a non-radial inefficiency slack) in small farms in Central and Eastern Europe with different types of farming under an environmentally adjusted production function. Based on this, potential development pathways for small farms are assumed. A hybrid data envelopment analysis meta-frontier super-efficiency model with environmental proxies reflecting biodiversity (i.e. crops diversity, grassland, orchards, vineyards) and undesirable outputs (such as soil organic matter loss and GHG sources) and an uncontrollable policy input is used on a country-representative sample of 2320 small farms in four countries: Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Moldova. We found that the more technically efficient small farms are also usually more sustainable when socially desirable criteria were considered. Crops small farms can evolve in two directions: “landscape guardians” and “artisanal (traditional) framers.” Livestock farms could either maintain the status quo or choose an exit pathway. Mixed farms are likely to become landscape guardians, while a sustainable intensification path is open for 20% of farms that specialize in permanent cropsen
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was financed by National Science Center in Poland, Grant Number: 2021/41/B/HS4/02433 and International Academic Partnership Grant No: PPI/APM/2018/1/00011/U/001.
dc.identifier.citationCzyżewski, B., & Kryszak, Ł. (2023). Can a pursuit of productivity be reconciled with sustainable practices in small-scale farming? Evidence from central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Cleaner Production, 137684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137684en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137684
dc.identifier.issn1879-1786
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/22692
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowe*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjecteco-efficiencyen
dc.subjectsmall farmsen
dc.subjectdata envelopment analysisen
dc.titleCan a Pursuit of Productivity Be Reconciled with Sustainable Practices in Small-Scale Farming? – Evidence from central and eastern Europeen
dc.typearticleen
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