Farshad Razmavar; Moslem Savari
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The water crisis, especially in the agricultural sector, has emerged as a major concern for policymakers in developing countries. Today, however, water scarcity is one of the main deterrents in agricultural production and plays an important role in the lack of food security. Therefore, the main purpose ...
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The water crisis, especially in the agricultural sector, has emerged as a major concern for policymakers in developing countries. Today, however, water scarcity is one of the main deterrents in agricultural production and plays an important role in the lack of food security. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to identify barriers to water protection and design water protection mechanisms in the agricultural sector. Due to the application of the qualitative approach in this study, Semi-structured interview with 17 farmers in Dashtestan as one of the agricultural areas with a dry climate affected by the recent drought in southern Iran were used. To analyze the results of this study, the paradigm model of Strauss and Corbin has been used to design an appropriate mechanism to overcome this crisis. Based on the analysis of the results of factors such as cultivation of irrigated crops by farmers, increasing area under cultivation, lack of budget and sufficient funds to the agricultural sector, warm weather in recent years, reduced rainfall in recent years, recent droughts, traditional irrigation system (flooding) Lack of facilities (such as loans to change the irrigation system), digging illegal wells in the area and improper water consumption culture were the most important obstacles to water protection from the perspective of farmers. Therefore, in order to get out of this problem, the identified factors were classified and analyzed in the form of 6 mechanisms: human, mental, environmental, supportive, regulatory, legal, and economic.
Moslem Savari; Fatemah Naghibeiranvand
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The main purpose of this study was Factors influencing the use of environmentally sustainable operations. The statistical population of the study was all wheat farmers in Khorramabad County (N= 22500). Using Cochran’s sampling formula, 240 of them were selected as a sample. Using Cochran's sampling ...
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The main purpose of this study was Factors influencing the use of environmentally sustainable operations. The statistical population of the study was all wheat farmers in Khorramabad County (N= 22500). Using Cochran’s sampling formula, 240 of them were selected as a sample. Using Cochran's sampling formula, 240 of them were selected as a sample (N=240). The main instrument in this study was questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by the panel of experts and the reliability of it was also calculated by using a sequential alpha test and through software. Data were analyzed by SPSS18 software. The results showed that the studied farmers do not have a favorable knowledge and attitude towards sustainable environmental practices. The results of the discriminant analysis showed that the six variables of Attitude towards sustainability, knowledge of sustainability, environmental concern, spatial attachment, social capital and non-farm employment have the greatest impact on the separation of agricultural groups (accepting and rejecting environmental sustainable operations). In summary, the discriminant function from these six variables is able to accurately differentiate the studied persons with 87.28% accuracy in accepting and rejecting environmental sustainable operations.