Žaliojo augimo žemės ūkyje matavimo metodiniai aspektai

Abstract

Green growth in agriculture is defined as farming practice and technologies that maintain and increase agricultural productivity and profit; it is efficient use of resources, assurance of sustainability and food security. Green growth differs from traditional economic growth measurement. Green growth includes not only economic but also social and environmental dimensions. In recent green growth studies have been measured agricultural GVA dependence from green growth factors such as greenhouse gas emission, energy consumption, number of employees and habitants, research expenditure, environmental taxes, renewable energy, internal recourses. Growth in environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity has been identified as a green growth in agriculture headline indicator. Environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity measuring provides opportunities to develop the growth contribution of natural asset or the growth adjustment for pollution abatement. Accounting for both environment related inputs, such as the use of natural resources, and environment related outputs, such as air pollution, can provide a better understanding of the role of environmental services agricultural productivity and economic growth.