Water conflicts might be a serious threat for the life quality of stakeholders and also an obstac... more Water conflicts might be a serious threat for the life quality of stakeholders and also an obstacle on the way of human and environmental development. Obviously, the environment could be affected by such conflicts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the agricultural water conflicts through a human ecological perspective using POET model and SWOT analysis. A descriptive mixed method including two surveys and semi-structured interviews was fulfilled as a research method. The study was conducted in Doroodzan dam irrigation network in Fars Province, Iran. The statistical population of this study included two groups of farmers and regional water experts; besides, the research tools included two questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. SWOT findings revealed that the best strategies reducing and controlling agricultural water conflict, and also maintaining and enhancing the environmental sustainability, are adaptation of participatory water management approaches, formation...
A conceptual model for adaptation to climate variability in rangelands
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Exploiting medicinal plants on rangelands is a climate-sensitive strategy in Iran. In other words... more Exploiting medicinal plants on rangelands is a climate-sensitive strategy in Iran. In other words, there is an urgent need for the transition toward resilience under current climatic pressures and risks. In addition, a deep understanding about awareness, risk perceptions, and adaptation strategies of different rural groups can play a significant role in the mitigation of climate change impacts and the development of the adaptation capacity. Therefore, the development of a conceptual model for adaptation to climate variability in rangelands was determined as the main purpose of the present study. To this end, we used analysis of awareness, risk perceptions, and adaptation strategies of medicinal plant exploiters toward climate variability. This research was carried out in Sought Khorasan province of Iran, which is one of the climate-sensitive and leading areas for the exploitation of medicinal plants in the country. Required data for this study were gathered through 13 focus group di...
Conflicts over rangeland exploitation have been a serious challenge in Iran, rooted in human beha... more Conflicts over rangeland exploitation have been a serious challenge in Iran, rooted in human behavior. Accordingly, this study aimed to provide a comprehensive theoretical framework in the field of analyzing conflict behavior among rangeland exploiters. This research is a descriptivecorrelational and causal-relational study conducted using a cross-sectional survey. The statistical population of the study was rangeland exploiters in one of the northwest provinces of Iran (N = 66,867) of whom 384 people were selected as a sample and stratified random sampling method with proportional assignment. The research instrument was a questionnaire, the validity of which was confirmed by a panel of academic experts and the reliability of its items was verified using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The results showed that the variables of personal norms (PN) and the perceived behavioral control were able to predict 25.9% of the variance in terms of the conflicting behavior of rangeland exploiters; besides, ascription of responsibility, PN, perceived behavioral control, and awareness of consequences, which have been proposed as activators of PN, were able to explain a significant percentage (63.5%) of the variance in terms of PN. Furthermore, analysis of the effects of environmental and cultural values showed that conflict behaviors of exploiters were mostly affected by their underlying values. Generally, the results of this study would help in the development of more integrated and comprehensive models in the field of exploiters' conflict behavior. Eventually, to change and improve the environmental behavior of exploiters to better management of conflict in rangelands, providing a list of considerations and competencies for agricultural extension and education, this article comes to the end.
Development of an opportunity-based model of rural entrepreneurial process
Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research
Towards conserving wetlands: Application of the social identity model of collective action
Land Degradation & Development
The purpose of this study was to explore the willingness of farmers to participate in the managem... more The purpose of this study was to explore the willingness of farmers to participate in the management and conservation of the wetlands in Iran. Theoretically, the present study introduces social identity models of collective action into the discourse of sustainable wetland management for the first time. The study site was Ghara Gheshlagh Wetland as one of the vital wetlands in northwestern Iran. The present applied research was conducted using a cross-sectional survey. The statistical population was the farming communities around the Ghara Gheshlagh Wetland. A proportionally allocated multi-staged stratified random sampling approach was employed to select 373 farmers as a representative sample. The data collection tool was a closed-ended questionnaire whose validity and reliability were tested and approved. The results indicated that the social identity model of collective action (SIMCA) and the encapsulation model of social identity in collective action (EMSICA) were able to explain 0.45 and 0.40 of the variance changes in the farmers' willingness to participate in the management and conservation of the wetland. This finding reveals that the environmental and wetland policies and management practice require collective determination, formation of collective identity beliefs, and we thinking system. Therefore, the SIMCA can better assist wetland managers, policy-makers, practitioners, and socio-ecological intervenors than the EMSICA because of its emphasis on social identity.
Analysis of Agricultural Extension and Education Organizational Network in Kerman Province: Social Network Analysis
Iranian Agricultural Extension and Education Journal, Mar 15, 2018
Formulating of small‐scale farmers' perception towards climate change in arid areas: Facilitating social interventions for agricultural sustainability
Water and Environment Journal, 2021
This study has been done with the aim of developing and validating a perceptual scale for small-s... more This study has been done with the aim of developing and validating a perceptual scale for small-scale farmers in arid regions and also redirecting interventions towards sustainability; it was conducted in the two qualitative and quantitative phases. In the scale validation process, principal component analysis was employed to identify the latent dimensions of farmers' perceptions of climate change. The results showed that the scale of farmers' perceptions of climate change has five latent dimensions including "awareness and knowledge", "ascription of responsibility", "forgetfulness and optimism about the future", "perceived risk", and "human agency". The results of model validation revealed that all fitness indices are at a suitable level and this scale might be used by climate change social interventions for sustaining agricultural activities, in water-scarce areas. Given that forgetfulness and optimism are due to the weakness of farmers' episodic memory, it was recommended that climate change social interventions be focused on improving episodic memory using episodic future thinking.
Forest-Based Climate Change Social Interventions: Towards a Theoretical Framework
Spatial Modeling in Forest Resources Management, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate factors affecting pomegranate growers' tendency towar... more The aim of this study is to investigate factors affecting pomegranate growers' tendency toward agricultural insurance in Natanz County. Sample size was 250 that were selected by Kucran formula collected by questionnaire. Questionnaire reliability was examined by Cronbach's Alpha method about 80 percent. Findings revealed that willingness to insurance has direct relation with age, background in orchard production, number of household members, awareness toward insurance, positive attitude about insurance, risk prone, social participator, use of information resources in relation to insurance, annual income, production amount, total area of orchard. Moreover, those pomegranate growers that agricultural production was their second job, in compare to those who agricultural production was their main job, had more tendency toward insurance. Besides, those who got into debt in compare to those who did not get into debt had more tendency toward insurance. Using information resources ...
The aim of the present research was to analyze the farmers’ intention towards participation in th... more The aim of the present research was to analyze the farmers’ intention towards participation in the management and conservation of wetlands through the lens of the extended theory of planned behavior (TPB). To do this, a cross-sectional survey of Iranian farmers was carried out. To select the samples, a multi-stage random sampling process with a proportional assignment was employed. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability were verified using various quantitative and qualitative indicators. The results of the extended TPB using structural equation modeling showed that four variables, namely moral norms of participation in management and conservation (MNPMC), attitude towards participation in management and conservation (APMC), subjective norms towards participation in management and conservation (SNPMC), and self-concept about participation in management and conservation (SCPMC) had positive and significant impacts on intention toward...
Application of cultural theory in analysis of attitude and activities toward water resource conservation: the case of Jehad-e Keshavarzi staffs in Bushehr province
The current rate of global groundwater withdrawals ─ about 750-800 km 3 per year or about a quart... more The current rate of global groundwater withdrawals ─ about 750-800 km 3 per year or about a quarter of total global water withdrawals ─ which is in excess of natural groundwater recharge rate, have depleted groundwater resources. This has resulted in several negative effects such as declining water tables, competitive deepening of wells, land subsidence, salt water intrusion, and water quality degradation. The complexity in regulating and monitoring groundwater withdrawals have made sustainable management of this resource very challenging. In this article, we present a term of Hydrogeo–terrorism or Silent Terrorism for attracting the attention of common-sense to groundwater protection and its dimensions and characteristics will be discussed.
Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, 2019
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is well known as a pro-environmental technology in agriculture. ... more Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is well known as a pro-environmental technology in agriculture. Therefore, investigating adoption of IPM mechanisms is crucial for agricultural products such as pistachio in Iran. The main purpose of this study was to assess the role of factors affecting IPM adoption by pistachio growers in Kerman Province. Survey was the research method and it was executed using researchersdesigned questionnaire. Totally, 225 pistachio growers were selected as sample size, using two-stages random cluster sampling method. Validity of the questionnaire items was entirely approved by a panel of experts. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used for reliability approval. Findings revealed that individual factors including age, education, farming experience, motivations, participation and innovative spirit in conjunction with economic factors such as income, and technological costs affect IPM adoption procedure. In addition, educational services along with IPM technical know...
Environmental challenges to natural resources have been attributed to human behavior and traditio... more Environmental challenges to natural resources have been attributed to human behavior and traditional agricultural production techniques. Natural resource degradation in agriculture has always been a prime concern in agro ecological research and sustainability analysis. There are many techniques for assessing environmental performance; one of which, ecological footprint (EF), assesses human pressure on the environment and natural resources. The main purpose of this study was calculation of ecological indices including biocapacity (BC) and EF of rural areas of Fars province of Iran. The study was accomplished using survey and structured interviews consisting of three main questionnaires in two different steps. Different agricultural stakeholders, including farmers (for the first step) as well as the policymakers, extension managers and authorities (for the second step) were interviewed. Based on multi-stage stratified random sampling, 50 villages and 423 farmers were selected. Face va...
Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, 2018
Sustainable livelihoods approach is one of the new analytical approaches in the arena of rural de... more Sustainable livelihoods approach is one of the new analytical approaches in the arena of rural development, and is considered much in recent years in order to achieve rural development and poverty reduction. The purpose of this study was to assess the sustainability of livelihoods of rural households from the perspective of the householders whose main occupation and source of livelihoods was agriculture and to identify those factors that could predict the accuracy of the classification of farmers with different perspectives of their livelihoods sustainability. Survey technique was used to collect data. Statistical population of the study included the farmers of Kermanshah Province, Iran. By using two-stage stratified sampling and determining selected counties, 250 householder farmers were chosen as a sample. Face validity of the data collection means was approved by an expert panel, and through the implementation of a pilot study, its reliability was approved. The results indicate t...
from government to governance A new enemy at the gate: Tackling Iran's water super-crisis by way of a transition
Iran faces a water crisis so severe that much of its land has ceased to be productive. Since Iran... more Iran faces a water crisis so severe that much of its land has ceased to be productive. Since Iran has coped with water shortages for thousands of years, it would seem that something has been lost in the abandonment, over the past half-century or so, of traditional practices in favour of modern ones. a comparison of the socio-technical systems inherent in the traditional practices at KIM Hohenheim on July 10, 2013 pdj.sagepub.com Downloaded from 178 A new enemy at the gate Progress in Development Studies 13, 3 (2013) pp. 177–194
Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, 2020
The present study aimed to analyze sugar beet farmers’ intention towards the acceptance of drip i... more The present study aimed to analyze sugar beet farmers’ intention towards the acceptance of drip irrigation based on an extended version of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The main objectives of this study were introduction of the existing acceptance behavior models, comparison of these theories with a critical point of view, presentation of a theoretical framework based on TAM, and testing the possible relationships among variables. This descriptive-correlational research was conducted through a cross-sectional survey. The statistical population of the study was sugar beet growers of Miandoab District, Iran, of which 346 farmers were selected as the sample of the study using a multi-stage stratified random sampling method (N= 3326). The research instrument was a structured questionnaire, whose face, convergent, and discriminant validity were confirmed. Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability coefficients were employed to examine the reliability of research tool (0.74< α...
Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, 2014
Understanding people’s ecological behaviors and the impacts of human activities on natural enviro... more Understanding people’s ecological behaviors and the impacts of human activities on natural environment is one of the most important concepts in ecological psychology research. The purpose of this study was to investigate causal relationship between factors and maize growers’ ecological behavior concerning the application of external inputs such as water, fertilizers, chemical pesticides, and machineries based on the Comprehensive Action Determination model applied to the agricultural sector in Iran, for the first time. The ecological behavior in agriculture means cultivation with proper methods for conservation of soil, water, and other resources. Population of this study was all maize growers in Shiraz County (491 farmers). Through stratified random sampling method, 220 maize growers were selected. Results indicate that situational influences, normative processes, intentional processes, and habitual processes are effective factors on maize growers' ecological behavior. Based on...
Towards a paradigm shift for agricultural extension : An environmental sociology perspective
International journal of food, agriculture and environment, 2006
This paper provides a conceptual framework for sustainability of extension efforts. A case illust... more This paper provides a conceptual framework for sustainability of extension efforts. A case illustration of extension and agricultural development activities of Iran indicates that these activities are not sustainable. The perceptions and assumptions about the relationship between society and environment based on environmental sociology worldview are presented to reconstruct the theoretical basis of agricultural extension. It has concluded that at the age of environment, the environmental sociology worldview could be used to paradigm shift for agricultural extension.
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