Article ID: | iaor2013495 |
Volume: | 226 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 325 |
End Page Number: | 331 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2013 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Leleu Herv, Boussemart Jean-Philippe, Berre David, Tillard Emmanuel |
Keywords: | statistics: data envelopment analysis |
Livestock supply must challenge the growth of final demand in the developing countries. This challenge has to take into account its ecological effects since the dairy and livestock sectors are clearly pointed out as human activities which contribute significantly to environmental deterioration. Therefore, livestock activity models have to include desirable and undesirable outputs simultaneously. Using this perspective, we implement a Data Envelopment Analysis model to evaluate shadow prices of outputs under contradictory objectives between the society and the farmers. We show that farmers are able to reduce pollution significantly if society accepts to balance farmers’ opportunity cost. Finally, we observe that initial levels of the CO