Are there trade-offs between animal welfare and egg-producing farm efficiency?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43110%2F24%3A43925926" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43110/24:43925926 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/62156489:43210/24:43925926
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.17221/93/2024-AGRICECON" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.17221/93/2024-AGRICECON</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/93/2024-AGRICECON" target="_blank" >10.17221/93/2024-AGRICECON</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Are there trade-offs between animal welfare and egg-producing farm efficiency?
Original language description
Agribusiness is currently faced with the challenge of providing sufficient quality food for a growing population with limited natural resources. Egg production, as an important source of nutrition, is a dynamically developing sector of livestock production on a global scale. Simultaneously, the increasing public and legal considerations of animal welfare affect egg-producing operations. This paper aims to provide insight into missing evidence in the trade-offs between animal welfare and efficiency in egg-producing farms in the Czech Republic and the European Union. Detailed data were gathered on the extent of the enriched cage and indoor cage-free housing systems (aviaries/barns) among the main 30 Czech table-egg-producers. Original micro data enlarged the information on table-egg producers collected using the Orbis database. For the efficiency analysis at the EU level, data on the housing systems were obtained from Eurostat and combined with aggregated data from the Orbis database. A robust data envelopment analysis was applied which benefits from including animal-welfare variables directly into the efficiency evaluation. The results showed a negative, but statistically insignificant, relationship between the animal welfare and efficiency of the egg producers for the Czech Republic table-egg producers as well as those on the EU-country level.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska ekonomika
ISSN
0139-570X
e-ISSN
1805-9295
Volume of the periodical
70
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
465-473
UT code for WoS article
001335599200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85209824167