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Title:
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) 2013 Conference papers
Series:
Conference papers
Series Issue:
2013: 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4 and 13.5
Publication Date:
07/02/2013
Description:
A Productivity Approach to the Evaluation of On Farm Sustainable Land Management Interventions Over the past three decades public investment in natural resource management has grown steadily across the globe. The purpose of this investment is to protect natural capital for future generations whilst maintaining present productive use of the land. This paper is concerned with the design and evaluation of policies intended to encourage landholders to adopt landuse practices that reduce negative externalities and the depreciation of natural capital. Some policy interventions are predicated on win win situations where a landholder can make private gains while contributing to the greater public good. We analyse conditions under which such beneficial joint production are plausible, drawing on case study evidence of farmer decision making. We then develop a framework that can evaluate government programs that encourage practices that maintain or improve farm profitability. This productivity based framework could isolate the effect (if any) of interventions on private gains, as well as their influence on improving environmental outcomes and is consistent with the observed motivations of landholders undertaking practice change. Technical efficiency of irrigated dairy producers in the Murray-Darling Basin This study uses data from the ABARES irrigation farm survey and the Australian Water Availability Project to evaluate movements in technical efficiency and technical change in the irrigated dairy industry in the southern Murray-Darling Basin between 2006-07 and 2010-11. Stochastic translog production frontiers are estimated using the maximum likelihood method developed by Battese and Coelli (1992). Average efficiency and returns to scale were estimated to be 77 per cent and 1.17 per cent, respectively. Across the period, technical change and technical efficiency change for the sample dairy farms were estimated to be 1.8 per cent and -0.8 per cent a year, respectively. These results suggest that there may be scope for further structural adjustment in the irrigated dairy industry and that there has been a growing gap between the farms on the production frontier and those below it. Comparing Agricultural Total Factor Productivity between Countries: the Case of Australia, Canada and the United States In this paper, Australian agricultural productivity is compared with that of two key competitors - Canada and the United States for the period 1961 to 2006. Using a growth accounting approach, the paper develops a production account for agriculture to derive input and output price indexes, adjusted for purchasing power parity, to enable consistent agricultural TFP index numbers to be estimated between countries. In contrast to previous studies, both the level and growth rate of agricultural productivity are compared. While productivity levels in Australian agriculture remain below that achieved by Canada and the United States, productivity growth has been similar to the United States and has been faster than in Canada. The paper also considers possible drivers of productivity differences across countries and the implications for the international competitiveness of Australian agriculture. Trends in total factor productivity of five key Commonwealth managed fisheries The total factor productivity indexes of five key Commonwealth fisheries have been developed using the Fisher index and ABARES survey data. Where fish stock biomass information is available, these indexes are also adjusted for changes in fish stocks. In trend terms, productivity increased over the last decade in most Commonwealth fisheries analysed. These increases reflect a mix of government induced structural adjustments and management changes as well as autonomous adjustment responses to market conditions. Changes in productivity can provide information regarding the response of fishing fleets to policy settings and how changes in fish stocks, technology and fleet structure have influenced a fishery's economic performance. These results are part of ongoing work to develop a suite of economic indicators to assess the economic performance of key Commonwealth fisheries. Decomposing the drivers of profitability in two key Commonwealth prawn fisheries This paper uses an index number profit decomposition approach to examine recent drivers of change in profitability in two key Commonwealth prawn fisheries, the Northern Prawn Fishery and the Torres Strait Prawn Fishery. This approach allows for the drivers of profitability that can be influenced by a fishery manager (fish stocks and productivity) to be separated from those that cannot (output prices and input prices). The results reveal that a divergence in the economic performance of the two fisheries has been the result of differences in product
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0 : A Productivity Approach to the Evaluation of On Farm Sustainable Land Management Interventions - PDF [0.9 MB]

1 : Technical efficiency of irrigated dairy producers in the Murray-Darling Basin - PDF [1.5 MB]

2 : Comparing Agricultural Total Factor Productivity between Countries: the Case of Australia, Canada and the United States - PDF [53.0 MB]

3 : Trends in total factor productivity of five key Commonwealth managed fisheries - PDF [1.2 MB]

4 : Decomposing the drivers of profitability in two key Commonwealth prawn fisheries - PDF [1.4 MB]
Publisher:
ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
Author:
MALLAWAARACHCHI Thilak Dr

GREEN Richard Mr

SHENG Yu

NOSSAL Katerina

BALL Eldon Dr

MOREY Kristopher Mr

STEPHAN Mary

SKIRTUN Maggie
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Other constraints: All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, save for content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms

Other constraints: A Productivity Approach to the Evaluation of On Farm Sustainable Land Management Interventions (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Mallawaarachchi, T and Green, R 2013, A Productivity Approach to the Evaluation of On Farm Sustainable Land Management Interventions. CC BY 3.0

Other constraints: Technical efficiency of irrigated dairy producers in the Murray-Darling Basin (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Morey K 2013, Technical efficiency of irrigated dairy producers in the Murray-Darling Basin. CC BY 3.0

Other constraints: Comparing Agricultural Total Factor Productivity between Countries: the Case of Australia, Canada and the United States (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Sheng Y, Nossal, K and Ball, E 2013, Comparing Agricultural Total Factor Productivity between Countries: the Case of Australia, Canada and the United States. CC BY 3.0

Other constraints: Trends in total factor productivity of five key Commonwealth managed fisheries (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Stephan, M 2013, Trends in total factor productivity of five key Commonwealth managed fisheries. CC BY 3.0

Other constraints: Decomposing the drivers of profitability in two key Commonwealth prawn fisheries (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: Skirtun, M 2013, Decomposing the drivers of profitability in two key Commonwealth prawn fisheries. CC BY 3.0
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ISBN 978-1-74323-054-1

ISSN 1322-655X
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