Agricultural Economics

Agricultural Economics

A regional view to development of cooperation and sustainability of food security

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
HAMIDEH SADAT AGHAMIRI 1
MAJID saidi rad 2
farideh najafi 2
mojgan jahanbin 3
1 Shahid Beheshti University Center for remote sensing and GIS studies
2 kharazmi university
3 shahid beheshty university
10.22034/iaes.2024.2028817.2061
Abstract
Emphasizing the importance of the relationship between food security and cooperation with an environmental and regional approach is a new strategy in the sustainable development of food security. In this article, for the first time, referring to the survey of nine provinces of the country. The pulse of production beats in the direction of ensuring food security in rural areas by analyzing cooperatives active in this area, with an emphasis on agricultural activity as the template activity was conducted between two groups, namely, villagers active in this area and provincial officials related to this sector. Because food security requires an institutional focus to achieve stability, which was introduced in this cooperative review as an institutional tool to organize the current situation of cooperatives according to the existing indicators. Therefore, paying attention to topics such as consensus food security, food governance, food system, agro-food system, food policy, food justice, food strategy, food regions, cooperative communication and food security were the things that were introduced and discussed in this review. The research method of this survey was mixed with an emphasis on field studies and questionnaire completion, which involved more than 600 active cooperatives in this analysis. In addition to completing the questionnaire, discussion with experts was one of the positive points of this research. The indicators and variables of this study were extracted after studying more than one hundred unique scientific sources with the Delphi technique, then they were discussed with the Likert scale, and finally, a consensus was reached by using correlation coefficient tests.The analysis of the conditions and extractive results of the research among 25 extractive indicators showed that the attention to the production force, land use changes, as well as management, credits and cooperatives of rural women were considered with the highest percentage therefore suggestions based on the environmental conditions of the provinces Review provided.
Keywords
district
rural cooperation
sustainability
food security
regeneration
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