Efficiency and sustainability assessment for a group of farmers in the Brazilian Amazon

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-181

  Gomes, Eliane Gonçalves ^a   Soares de Mello, João Carlos Correia Baptista ^b   E Souza, Geraldo Da Silva ^a   Angulo Meza, Lidia ^b   Mangabeira, João Alfredo De Carvalho ^a  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Family farms; Iso efficiency tiers; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 64149085785     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-008-0390-6     Document Type: Article

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