Technical and Environmental Efficiency of Grapevine Production in Mendoza, Argentina

Riera, Félix Sebastián

Eficiencia Técnica y Ambiental de la Producción de Uva en Mendoza, Argentina

dc.contributor.advisor	Brümmer, Bernhard Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.author	Riera, Félix Sebastián
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-12T10:14:55Z
dc.date.available	2018-12-12T10:14:55Z
dc.date.issued	2018-12-12
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E52F-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-7197
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc	630	de
dc.title	Technical and Environmental Efficiency of Grapevine Production in Mendoza, Argentina	de
dc.title.alternative	Eficiencia Técnica y Ambiental de la Producción de Uva en Mendoza, Argentina	de
dc.type	doctoralThesis	de
dc.contributor.referee	Brümmer, Bernhard Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination	2018-11-02
dc.description.abstracteng	As the Argentinean grapevine production systems have gained global visibility, the wine industry has been revitalized with a greater focus on enological quality, technology adoption, and export orientation. Although grapevine production has decreased 36% in a decade nationwide, the province of Mendoza accounts for 66% of grapevine production and 73.3% of the wine making. These changes are explained by relatively more technologically advanced production systems with a focus on quality and a higher decrease of vine hectarage in other provinces of Argentina. Small and medium size producers face scale limitations, financial constraints, and uneven access to quality irrigation water. There is a concern that vineyards fall short on their potential and that they are not optimizing their resources. The contribution of this dissertation is to unveil the underlying political and economic factors that affect the performance of vineyards and their effects on water resources. This dissertation departs from previous empirical applications by shedding light on the efficiency determinants of grapevine production and simultaneously accounting for agroecosystem characteristics and plot level information including irrigated water volumes in Mendoza, Argentina. Technical and environmental efficiency is assessed utilizing an unique dataset of 647 plots that includes, soil characterization, water volumes, and dummy variables for technology adoption and enological practices. The research considers that farmers jointly produce a desired output (grapevines) and an undesired output (saline hazard), both are dependent on the farmers’ location as well as their production systems and practices. The framework allows for estimation of the directional distance function following the most fair direction; that is, increasing grapevine production while decreasing salinity hazard. Results of the estimation confirm an existing trade-off relationship between grapevine production and saline hazard. The mean economic environmental efficiency is 0.869 corresponding a mean inefficiency of 0.131.	de
dc.contributor.coReferee	Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.thirdReferee	Gennari, Alejandro J. Prof. Dr.
dc.subject.ger	Eficiencia técnica	de
dc.subject.ger	Productividad en zonas áridas	de
dc.subject.ger	Eficiencia ambiental	de
dc.subject.ger	Uso del agua en agricultura	de
dc.subject.ger	Economía del agua	de
dc.subject.ger	Política económica	de
dc.subject.ger	Análisis de Fronteras Estocásticas	de
dc.subject.ger	Nexo Agua-Alimentos-Energía	de
dc.subject.ger	Producción de uva	de
dc.subject.eng	Technical efficiency	de
dc.subject.eng	Environmental efficiency	de
dc.subject.eng	Productivity	de
dc.subject.eng	Water use in agriculture	de
dc.subject.eng	Grapevine production	de
dc.subject.eng	Water-Food-Energy Nexus	de
dc.subject.eng	Stochastic Frontier Analysis	de
dc.subject.eng	Directional Distance Functions	de
dc.subject.eng	Tripod analysis	de
dc.subject.eng	Political economy	de
dc.subject.eng	Mendoza	de
dc.subject.eng	Water economics	de
dc.subject.eng	Stochastic Frontier	de
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E52F-6-3
dc.affiliation.institute	Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften	de
dc.subject.gokfull	Land- und Forstwirtschaft (PPN621302791)	de
dc.identifier.ppn	1042463557

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