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Title: | Sustainable cropping pattern in North Iran: application of fuzzy goal programming | Authors: | Joolaie, Ramtin Sarvestani, Ahmad Abedi Taheri, Fatemeh VAN PASSEL, Steven AZADI, Hossein |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | SPRINGER | Source: | Environment, development and sustainability, 19(6), p. 2199-2216 | Abstract: | Due to the important role that the application of mathematical programming models have in determining optimal cropping patterns, this research presents a sustainable cropping pattern that considers selected economic, environmental, and social goals together. Using a random sampling method, a sample size of 168 farmers was selected in the Sari County, Iran. Our results showed that economic, self-sufficiency, environmental, and social goals have a distinctly different impact on cropping pattern performance. Compared to the current cropping pattern, the gross margins for economic and social goals increased by nearly 11 and 2 %, respectively, and the gross margins for self-sufficiency and environmental goals decreased by nearly 2 and 36 %. Interestingly, it has been found that the performance of the current cropping pattern has an average positive impact of 6 % if economic, self-sufficiency, environmental, and social (employment) goals are realized simultaneously. | Notes: | [Joolaie, Ramtin] Gorgan Univ Agr Sci & Nat Resources, Dept Agr Econ, Gorgan, Iran. [Sarvestani, Ahmad Abedi] Gorgan Univ Agr Sci & Nat Resources, Dept Agr Extens & Educ, Gorgan, Iran. [Taheri, Fatemeh] Khuzestan Ramin Agr & Nat Resources Univ, Dept Agr Extens & Educ, Mollasani, Iran. [Van Passel, Steven] Univ Antwerp, Dept Engn Management, Antwerp, Belgium. [Van Passel, Steven; Azadi, Hossein] Hasselt Univ, Ctr Environm Sci, Hasselt, Belgium. [Azadi, Hossein] Univ Liege, Econ & Rural Dev, Liege, Belgium. [Azadi, Hossein] Univ Ghent, Dept Geog, Ghent, Belgium. | Keywords: | Sustainable agriculture; Environmental development; Crop planning; Fuzzy sets;Sustainable agriculture; Environmental development; Crop planning; Fuzzy sets | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/25686 | ISSN: | 1387-585X | e-ISSN: | 1573-2975 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10668-016-9849-9 | ISI #: | 000414459300004 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2018 |
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