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J.H.M. Peerlings
Department of Social Sciences, Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Published: 10 December 2020 in Sustainability
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Although barley production is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, households in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia rely on barley for their diet and allocate most of their highly-fragmented land to barley production. Moreover, farmers alter land management practices as a strategy to adjust to climate change and variability. However, to what extent land fragmentation and land management jointly influence the technical efficiency of barley production is unknown. In addition, it is unidentified whether technical efficiency is uniform across multiple separated plots. In this study, we adapted two stochastic frontier panel models on plot-level cross-sectional data to investigate this. The model results indicate that fragmentation influences the effect of land management practices on efficiency. The study found that efficiency was not uniform across different plots and for different farmers and showed the existence of large yield gaps. To close these gaps, policies designed to address the specific components of inefficiency need to be implemented.

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Tesfaye Cholo; Jack Peerlings; Luuk Fleskens. Land Fragmentation, Technical Efficiency, and Adaptation to Climate Change by Farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10304 .

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Tesfaye Cholo, Jack Peerlings, Luuk Fleskens. Land Fragmentation, Technical Efficiency, and Adaptation to Climate Change by Farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10304.

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Tesfaye Cholo; Jack Peerlings; Luuk Fleskens. 2020. "Land Fragmentation, Technical Efficiency, and Adaptation to Climate Change by Farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10304.

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Published: 16 November 2019 in Sustainability of European Food Quality Schemes
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The Opperdoezer Ronde is a potato variety that was first grown in 1860 in the village of Opperdoes in the province of North-Holland in the Netherlands. In 1996 the Opperdoezer Ronde became a PDO protected product that can only be grown on 450 ha of farmland in Opperdoes every 3 years in the crop rotation. The Opperdoezer Ronde is an early potato, i.e. it has a short growing season of 10–12 weeks, from May till September. The Opperdoezer Ronde is sold at a substantially higher price than regular potatoes while intermediate costs of production are only slightly higher. This leads to a substantially higher value added per ha. The product is marketed via one company that sells the potatoes to mainly large retailers in the Netherlands. However, a maximum of one third of the production can be sold directly by the farmers to end consumers. The environmental impact per hectare of Opperdoezer Ronde is somewhat lower than for reference potatoes due to the shorter growing season. However, it becomes higher on a per ton basis due to the lower yield while it is lower per euro value added due to the high price of the Opperdoezer Ronde. The data to assess the social impact of Opperdoezer Ronde could not be accessed. However, this impact is likely negligible given the small number of producers and the absence of processing. Moreover, farmers have alternative production and employment possibilities. There might be some small impact on tourism as the village of Opperdoes has become more well-known because of the Opperdoezer Ronde.

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Jack Peerlings; Liesbeth Dries. PDO Opperdoezer Potatoes in the Netherlands. Sustainability of European Food Quality Schemes 2019, 191 -200.

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Jack Peerlings, Liesbeth Dries. PDO Opperdoezer Potatoes in the Netherlands. Sustainability of European Food Quality Schemes. 2019; ():191-200.

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Jack Peerlings; Liesbeth Dries. 2019. "PDO Opperdoezer Potatoes in the Netherlands." Sustainability of European Food Quality Schemes , no. : 191-200.

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Published: 09 October 2018 in Ecological Complexity
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To prevent further biodiversity loss as a result of intensive agricultural practices, Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES) have been implemented on European farmland. Unfortunately these AES have not always been effective in terms of biodiversity and farmer participation. In an effort to improve the AES programme the Dutch government switched from an individual application system to a collective application system for AES payments in 2016. The goal of this paper is to analyse how the resilience of the land use system in terms of farmer participation in the AES and biodiversity is affected by the value farmers attach to biodiversity, and whether the shift from an individual to collective AES will affect the resilience of the land use system. We constructed a multi-objective mathematical programming model in which farmers maximise utility. Farmers are linked through their common effect on biodiversity. In the collective application system payments are only available when the biodiversity in the region is above a certain threshold. Simulation results show no difference in farmer participation and biodiversity between the individual application system and the collective application system when biodiversity weights are high. The land use system loses its resilience in terms farmer participation in the AES and biodiversity if we lower the biodiversity weights, this effect is stronger in the collective AES programme.

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A.N. Groeneveld; J.H.M. Peerlings; M.M. Bakker; N.B.P. Polman; W.J.M. Heijman. Effects on participation and biodiversity of reforming the implementation of agri-environmental schemes in the Netherlands. Ecological Complexity 2018, 40, 100726 .

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A.N. Groeneveld, J.H.M. Peerlings, M.M. Bakker, N.B.P. Polman, W.J.M. Heijman. Effects on participation and biodiversity of reforming the implementation of agri-environmental schemes in the Netherlands. Ecological Complexity. 2018; 40 ():100726.

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A.N. Groeneveld; J.H.M. Peerlings; M.M. Bakker; N.B.P. Polman; W.J.M. Heijman. 2018. "Effects on participation and biodiversity of reforming the implementation of agri-environmental schemes in the Netherlands." Ecological Complexity 40, no. : 100726.

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Published: 21 June 2018 in Sustainability
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Land fragmentation is high and increasing in the Gamo Highlands of southwest Ethiopia. We postulate that this substantial land fragmentation is obstructing the adoption of sustainable land management practices as climate adaptation measures. To explore this, a mixed method study was conducted with emphasis on a multivariate probit model. The results indicate that farmers adapt to climate change and variability they perceive. According to the probit model, there is no clear answer to the question whether land fragmentation facilitates or obstructs adoption of sustainable land management practices. Yet, a qualitative analysis found that farmers perceive land fragmentation as an obstacle to land improvement as adaptation strategy. Moreover, farmers invest more in land improvement on plots close to their homestead than in remote plots. However, the higher land fragmentation also promoted crop diversification, manure application and terracing. Although exogenous to farmers, we therefore suggest that land fragmentation can be deployed in climate change adaptation planning. This can be done through voluntary assembling of small neighboring plots in clusters of different microclimates to encourage investment in remote fields and to collectively optimize the benefits of fragmentation to adaptation.

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Tesfaye C. Cholo; Luuk Fleskens; Diana Sietz; Jack Peerlings. Is Land Fragmentation Facilitating or Obstructing Adoption of Climate Adaptation Measures in Ethiopia? Sustainability 2018, 10, 2120 .

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Tesfaye C. Cholo, Luuk Fleskens, Diana Sietz, Jack Peerlings. Is Land Fragmentation Facilitating or Obstructing Adoption of Climate Adaptation Measures in Ethiopia? Sustainability. 2018; 10 (7):2120.

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Tesfaye C. Cholo; Luuk Fleskens; Diana Sietz; Jack Peerlings. 2018. "Is Land Fragmentation Facilitating or Obstructing Adoption of Climate Adaptation Measures in Ethiopia?" Sustainability 10, no. 7: 2120.

Journal article
Published: 21 February 2014 in Journal of Agricultural Economics
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Firms are able to survive only if they adapt appropriately in response to disturbances. The ability of a farm to continue after a disturbance is defined as resilience. To analyse the resilience of EU farms we explore exit and the number of adaptation strategies that farmers follow under two scenarios. The current CAP will be continued in the base scenario, while it will be abolished in scenario 2. The outcomes show that under both scenarios large, more specialised farms with young farm heads are most resilient, and small more diversified farms headed by old farmers are least resilient.

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Jack Peerlings; Nico Polman; Liesbeth Dries. Self-reported Resilience of European Farms With and Without the CAP. Journal of Agricultural Economics 2014, 65, 722 -738.

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Jack Peerlings, Nico Polman, Liesbeth Dries. Self-reported Resilience of European Farms With and Without the CAP. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2014; 65 (3):722-738.

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Jack Peerlings; Nico Polman; Liesbeth Dries. 2014. "Self-reported Resilience of European Farms With and Without the CAP." Journal of Agricultural Economics 65, no. 3: 722-738.

Journal article
Published: 20 February 2014 in Small Business Economics
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Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development literature. In this paper, we show that industrial clusters, through specialization and division of labor, can ease the financial constraints of microenterprises even in the absence of a well-functioning capital market. By using data from more than 17,000 microenterprises in four sectors and four regions of Ethiopia, we find that clustering lowers capital entry barrier by reducing the initial investment required to start a business. This effect is found to be significantly larger for microenterprises investing in districts with high capital market inefficiency, indicating the importance of clustering as an organizational response to a credit constrained environment. The findings highlight the importance of cluster-based industrial activities as an alternative method of propagating industrialization when local conditions do not allow easy access to credit.

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Merima Ali; Jack Peerlings; Xiaobo Zhang. Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia. Small Business Economics 2014, 43, 697 -709.

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Merima Ali, Jack Peerlings, Xiaobo Zhang. Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia. Small Business Economics. 2014; 43 (3):697-709.

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Merima Ali; Jack Peerlings; Xiaobo Zhang. 2014. "Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia." Small Business Economics 43, no. 3: 697-709.

Journal article
Published: 09 October 2008 in European Review of Agricultural Economics
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The paper examines the possibility of lock-in on the area contracted under an agri-environmental contract in Dutch dairy farming, using a mathematical programming model, and the interaction of these contracts with Dutch national manure policy. Stricter manure policies increase contract participation, since more restrictive N application standards lower the opportunity cost of contracting. If contract payments are halved in a later period, 95 per cent of the contracting farms in the model would like to alter their contracting decision but they do not because of the cost of grassland renewal (switching cost). These farms are locked-in. The model incorporates time, transaction cost and technical and institutional constraints.

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Jack Peerlings; Nico Polman. Agri-environmental contracting of Dutch dairy farms: the role of manure policies and the occurrence of lock-in. European Review of Agricultural Economics 2008, 35, 167 -191.

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Jack Peerlings, Nico Polman. Agri-environmental contracting of Dutch dairy farms: the role of manure policies and the occurrence of lock-in. European Review of Agricultural Economics. 2008; 35 (2):167-191.

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Jack Peerlings; Nico Polman. 2008. "Agri-environmental contracting of Dutch dairy farms: the role of manure policies and the occurrence of lock-in." European Review of Agricultural Economics 35, no. 2: 167-191.

Journal article
Published: 09 January 2003 in Agribusiness
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In this article the market power argument for explaining asymmetric price transmission due to market power in case of supply shocks is examined. Moreover, the potential welfare effects are examined. The analysis is performed using an extension of the Azzam and Schroeter (1995) model comprising both oligopsony and oligopoly instead of just oligopsony. The model is given empirical content using data on the Dutch cucumber chain and assuming Cournot competition among retailers who have market power on either the consumer|retail or growers|retail market or both. The results show that in case of a cucumber supply shock and market power, consumer prices change more than growers' prices. Moreover, total welfare effects of market power are small but potentially large income distribution effects exist. [EconLit citations: L130, Q130.] © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Agribusiness 19: 19-28, 2003.

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Frank Bunte; Jack Peerlings. Asymmetric price transmission due to market power in the case of supply shocks. Agribusiness 2003, 19, 19 -28.

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Frank Bunte, Jack Peerlings. Asymmetric price transmission due to market power in the case of supply shocks. Agribusiness. 2003; 19 (1):19-28.

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Frank Bunte; Jack Peerlings. 2003. "Asymmetric price transmission due to market power in the case of supply shocks." Agribusiness 19, no. 1: 19-28.