Abstract
Agricultural production and productivity are important from multiple perspectives, including environmental protection, food self-sufficiency,renewable energy sourcesas well as economic returns. The earlier literature has sparsely addressed the biological and economic productivity dynamics when decomposing the changes in the output of agriculture within a single framework at the country level. This paper presents an index decomposition approach that allows explaining the changes in agricultural output from the perspective of theecological footprintand biological capacity. These measures represent the shift towards a more valuable output mix and lower environmental pressures. Economic and biological productivity is involved in the analysis. The case of the selected European Union (EU) and BRIICS (Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa) countries is considered for the empirical analysis. The index decomposition analysismodel based on the Shapley value is constructed for the empirical analysis. The results suggest that the EU countries saw a less vibrant growth in the agricultural output than that of the BRIICS countries over 1992-2016. The biological productivity growth was more important for the EU countries if opposed to the BRIICS ones.
Baležentis, T.; Šikšnelytė-Butkienė, I.; Ramanauskė, N.; Štreimikienė, D.; Coluccia, B.. 2022. Disentangling the sources of dynamics in the agricultural output of the BRIICS and EU countries: The ecological footprint perspective with Shapley value decomposition.Journal of cleaner production: Elsevier Sci Ltd. ISSN 0959-6526. eISSN 1879-1786. 2022, April, 346, 1311982, p. 1-10. DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131198;[Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science); Scopus; GEOBASE]