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| Mondelaers, Koen; Lauwers, Ludwig H.. |
| The ecosystem and the economic subsystem are interlinked. In fact, it is the overconsumption of scarce resources or the overproduction of bad outputs at economic system level that causes a great part of the imbalances at the ecosystem level. Some imbalances do not originate at the economic system level, but are due to external factors. Given the possibility of external shocks, respecting static sustainability thresholds is not a guarantee for system sustainability. In a dynamic setting, the concept of resilience is therefore helpful. In this paper we show how this concept can complement the traditional efficiency approach to come to a sustainable value creating economic system. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114648 |
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| Wustenberghs, H.; Broekx, Steven; Van Hoof, K.; Claeys, Dakerlia; D'Heygere, T.; D'Hooghe, J.; Dessers, R.; Huysmans, T.; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Meynaerts, E.; Vercaemst, P.. |
| In intensive animal husbandry areas surface water N and P concentrations often remain too high. The Water Framework Directive calls for additional nutrient emission abatement measures. Therefore, costs and benefits for possible agricultural measures in Flanders were first analysed in terms of soil balance surplus. Finally, abatement measures for agriculture, households and industry were set off against each other and ranked according to their cost-efficiency by the Environmental Costing Model. Increased dairy cattle efficiency, winter cover crops and increased pig feed efficiency turn out very cost efficient. Other agricultural measures are less cost efficient than for instance collective treatment for households and industry. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Nitrogen and phosphorus abatement; Surface water; Cost efficiency; Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44245 |
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| Claeys, Dakerlia; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Marchand, Fleur L.; Van Meensel, Jef; Buysse, Jeroen; Van der Straeten, Bart; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| The paper discusses an ex ante evaluation of the derogation on the Nitrates Directive for Flanders, Belgium, which is a case of intensive but highly productive livestock areas. The aim is to develop an accurate simulation model to detect small differences in manure surpluses caused by changes of manure production and/or utilization. The system of models consists of various modules to fine tune the calculations of manure production, fertilizing behaviour and manure allocation and disposal on and off farm. The results show that derogation may cause the existing manure surpluses to expire, if only nitrogen limits are considered and no transactions costs are taken into account. When also phosphate fertilization limits are considered, the increase in manuring... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Nitrates Directive; Derogation; Modelling; Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44436 |
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| Marchand, Fleur L.; Buysse, Jeroen; Campens, V.; Claeys, Dakerlia; Fernagut, Bruno; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Van der Straeten, Bart; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| Current thoughts on CAP changes, e.g. the "Health Check", emphasize the necessity to move away from payments based on historical receipts towards a "flatter rate" system. The aim of current research is to simulate the impact of a flat rate system (equal payments per hectare of cultivated land) compared to the current historical system (payments based on individual historic entitlements). Impact on production and income of arable, dairy and cattle farms of two different flat rate scenario's, is assessed with a farm-based sector model for Flanders. The model maximizes income at farm level, calibrated to observed farming behavior in 2001-2003. Farm data can be selected by farm type, size and region, simulations could be run for specific sub sectors, size... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Positive Mathematical Programming; Farm model; Common Agricultural Policy; Payment Entitlements.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6681 |
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| Van der Straeten, Bart; Buysse, Jeroen; Marchand, Fleur L.; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Claeys, Dakerlia; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| In 2005, 30% of the Flemish farms faced a manure excess, while at aggregated level still 9.7% of the emission rights were unused. This means that, despite the various possibilities, Flemish farmers do not succeed in an effective exchange of manure between farms. In current paper is shown how inorganic fertilizer use influences the use and exchange of organic nitrogen. Because of the mutual interdependency between organic and inorganic nitrogen emission rights (or quota), inorganic nitrogen use limits the emission rights for organic nitrogen. Utilisation of these emission rights are analysed as a trade-offs choice between plant productivity (use of inorganic nitrogen) and manure disposal, as the major abatement alternative of manure production. Farmers... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Manure abatement; Nutrient emission rights; Tobit model; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43642 |
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| Buysse, Jeroen; Van der Straeten, Bart; Claeys, Dakerlia; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Marchand, Fleur L.; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| To explain over- and underuse of available quota, Buysse et al. (2007) have integrated the shadow cost of the quota constraint in a quota flexibility function in a positive mathematical programming model. This method and central hypothesis, formulated and tested for the case of Belgian sugar beet farms, is in current paper extended and confirmed for the cases of Flemish dairy quota and manure emission rights. Despite the different organisation, objectives and implementations of the diverse quota systems, the results are similar. A higher utilisation of quota is significantly driven by the quota rent, but farm characteristics are also important and the effect declines with increasing quota rent. Regardless the quota, the dairy quota flexibility behaviour of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Quota; Flexibility; Positive Mathematical Programming; Farm model; Common Agricultural Policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6640 |
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| Mondelaers, Koen; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| institutions of sustainability (PIoS), which are sets of rules that a series of private actors voluntary follow to reach a sustainability target. Within PIoS, a strong position on sustainability themes is used as a mean to maximize private utility. Consequently, there is a potential win-win situation for both the private actors and the society. Typical for these multistakeholder PIoS is their hybrid configuration. Ménard (2004) introduced the concept of hybrids as an intermediate between pure anonymous spot markets and firms as hierarchies. It is a governance structure where actors have transferred part of their autonomous property rights to others, in order to allow for some coordination between partners. One of the main examples of PIoS in the food... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121993 |
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| de Mey, Yann; Wauters, Erwin; van Winsen, Frankwin; Vancauteren, Mark; Van Passel, Steven; Lauwers, Ludwig H.. |
| Modeling the farm level impact of risk management programs, policies and instruments is traditionally been done on a farm-level basis. Hence, farm simulation models typically use the behavioural assumption of profit or utility maximization is risk aversion taken into account. However, abundant – albeit indirect – evidence from different literature sources suggest that minimization of household risk – being the chance of falling below a certain threshold level of household cash flow – might be more realistic behavioural assumption. In this paper, we present concepts of operational, financial, total farm and household risk. Further, using a stochastic simulation model on two typical Belgian dairy farms, we illustrate possible farmers responses in the... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Household risk; Typical dairy farms; Stochastic simulation; Household buffering capacity; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122470 |
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| Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| A new method for analysing environmental efficiency, based on the materials balance, is proposed. With this method, an environmental allocative efficiency measure can be defined analogously to the more commonly used economic allocative efficiency. Nutrient surplus in pig fattening, a typical balance indicator, is used to illustrate the concept in a two input one output case. The materials balance based efficiency analysis is elaborated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Results are compared with those of more common, merely input or output oriented DEA approaches. A main conclusion is that, ignoring the balance feature of environmental issues such as nutrient surplus might be a main reason why traditional integral analyses of economic and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25916 |
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| Kerselaers, Eva; Govaerts, Wim; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; De Cock, Lieve; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| A farm model is developed for simulating the potential income change resulting from conversion to organic farming. The model uses conventional farm data, taken from the Belgian FADN. Given the normative character of the model, and the impossibility of calibration to historical conversion behaviour, two model variants, a rigid and a flexible, are created to broaden the analysis scope. Moreover, extra attention is paid to the verification process and sensitivity analysis. Results reveal that the economic potential for conversion is rather high, if farmers are willing to change their farm management sufficiently. Furthermore, conversion potential depends on the farm type and conventional farm characteristics. The model finally proves to be an interesting tool... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Organic farming; Conversion period; Farm model; Linear programming; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; C61; Q12. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24732 |
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