Assessment of social sustainability components in agriculture sector of Iran using a systemic approach
- PDF / 719,695 Bytes
- 13 Pages / 595.276 x 790.866 pts Page_size
- 47 Downloads / 208 Views
ARTICLE
Assessment of social sustainability components in agriculture sector of Iran using a systemic approach Hamed Ghadermarzi1 · Pouria Ataei2 · Hamid Karimi3 · Safe Allah Safaei4 Received: 6 November 2019 / Revised: 2 February 2020 / Accepted: 14 March 2020 © The International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering 2020
Abstract The present descriptive correlational study focused on assessing the social sustainability of intercropping-based family farming systems and agricultural cooperative systems with a systemic approach. The statistical population was composed of the villages in Shiraz County of Fars Province, Iran that were engaged in intercropping and production cooperative systems. In the first step, 186 farmers who were using intercropping-based family farming system were taken by enumeration technique. In the second step, 200 members of the agricultural cooperatives of this county were sampled by the stratified random sampling technique with proportional allocation. The research instrument was a self-designed questionnaire, and data were analyzed by the S PSS22 software package. The results showed that the components of existence and effectiveness were assigned with the highest weight in family farming systems and the components of coexistence and adaptability were allocated with the highest weight in the cooperative systems. The results of the assessment by Morris’ model implied that none of the components of social sustainability was at a sustainable level. The results of discriminant analysis of farmers’ characteristics in terms of social sustainability level revealed that nine components could account for social sustainability level: literacy level, coexistence, family size, income, freedom of action, existence, equality, accountability, and effectiveness. Keywords Social sustainability · Family farming system · Intercropping · Crop production cooperative · Sustainable development
Introduction
* Hamid Karimi [email protected] Hamed Ghadermarzi [email protected] Pouria Ataei [email protected] Safe Allah Safaei [email protected] 1
Department of Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2
Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran
3
Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran
4
Social Sciences Group, Payame Nour University, Tehran, Iran
Sustainable development is a comprehensive approach to improving the life quality of people in order to achieve economic, social, and environmental welfare of human habitations (Roboredo et al. 2016). In the context of an optimal approach to the development of rural areas, or the so-called sustainable rural development, rural development is based on a heuristic and systemic approach that encompasses fundamental dimensions constituting rural development system with a balanced link between them (Manos et al. 2014). Sus
Data Loading...
