Assessment of Walloon dairy farms eco-efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis and easily-accessible environmental and economic indicators: a preliminary study

Achieving economically viable and environmentally friendly food production is a key challenge today. In this context, the aim of this study was to (i) analyse the economic and environmental efficiency (i.e., eco-efficiency) of a sample of specialised dairy farms in the Walloon region of Belgium; and (ii) to identify key management factors that differ between efficient and inefficient farms. Eco-efficiency was estimated with the productive efficiency benchmarking method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is a well-known technique for measuring the relative efficiency of comparable decision-ma... Mehr ...