Concerns over man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their potential impact on global climate change has seen the introduction of a number of national and international emissions reduction targets. Arguably the most significant of these targets to date is the EU proposal to reduce its total...

Innovation is a key driver of productivity growth. This paper proposes a novel methodology in order to explore the impact of farm-level innovations on farm productivity and its components (i.e. technology, efficiency and scale) using representative data from Irish dairy farms. We measure...