Abstract It is widely recognized that participation in producer groups advantageous for smallholders who must deal with complex production and marketing constraints dynamic business environments. However, available data on this process are scarce the fishery sector, while existing evidence limited by smallholders’ potential self-selection into groups. This study, therefore, examined selectivity...

En este trabajo se analiza la eco-eficiencia de explotaciones citrícolas que operan bajo dos sistemas tecnológicos diferentes, convencional y orgánico. La metodología empleada combina el Análisis del Ciclo de Vida, para estimar los impactos ambientales vinculados al proceso de producción, y el Análisis Envolvente de Datos, para calcular la posición de cada explotación en relación a una frontera...

this paper uses the concept of meta-frontier to investigate the relationship between meta technology ratios (mtr) and different varieties in datepalms including; mazafati, rabi and zardan that are produced widely in sistan and baluchestan province of iran. we used a stratified sampling of 300 date farmers of this province in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and estimated a stochastic production frontier usi...

This paper uses the concept of Meta-frontier to investigate the relationship between Meta Technology Ratios (MTR) and different varieties in datepalms including; Mazafati, Rabi and Zardan that are produced widely in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. We used a stratified sampling of 300 date farmers of this province in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and estimated a stochastic production frontier usi...

abstractgiven the importance of the notion of efficiency in the country's economic growth, measuring the efficiency and the technology gap for various industries in order to achieve the best possible resource assignment, following the declared policy goals, is of particular importance for those countries, such as iran, which are now at the early stages of the industrialization process. hen...