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This paper analyses the impact of the Agri-environmental Extensification Scheme for the Protection of Flora and Fauna (F&F Scheme) on the eco-efficiency of a sample of dryland farms in the Spanish region of Castile and Leon. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the so-called program decomposition approach to efficiency measurement, we explore...

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... the higher the energy ratio is, the greater the pressure the farm exerts on the environ- ment. Table 1 presents the main descriptive statistics of all these variables for the whole sample of farms and separately for each of the groups considered. This table also includes the results of a t-test for the statistical significance of averages across farms included and not included in the F&F Scheme. ...

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