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- Title
Productivity and Environmental Performance in Marketing Cooperatives: An Analysis of the Spanish Horticultural Sector.
- Authors
Galdeano-Gómez, Emilio; Céspedes-Lorente, Jos; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Manuel
- Abstract
The paper analyses the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental inputs/outputs. In the European agriculture, expectations for attaining sustainable and competitive agriculture rely to a great extent on the cooperative sector's ability to adapt to new market conditions. These challenges have led marketing cooperatives in the fruit and vegetables sector to consider improvements in productivity and sound environmental performance. The study analyses the total factor productivity related to environmental variables in this sector using a parametric-stochastic approach and panel data on Spanish cooperatives over the period 1994–2002. Additionally, the determinants of environmental productivity are examined econometrically. The estimates obtained show an increase in efficiency for the period under study and a relationship between productivity changes and management factors, such as labour quality, capital intensity and environmental spillover.
- Subjects
MARKETING cooperatives; AGRICULTURE; FRUIT industry; LABOR productivity; HORTICULTURAL products; HORTICULTURAL crops
- Publication
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006, Vol 57, Issue 3, p479
- ISSN
0021-857X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1477-9552.2006.00061.x