Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness in Iran

by Masoomeh Rashidghalam

Overview

This book presents a collection of ten empirical studies on Iran’s sustainable agriculture and agribusiness, grouped into three domains: agricultural prices and commodity market analysis; risk management and climate change; and natural resources and environmental economics. The various studies elaborate on sustainable agriculture, climate change, pest management, natural resources, land-use, agricultural marketing, risk management and insurance in Iran’s agricultural sector. The book also introduces the key microeconomic principles that are applied to agriculture from a suitability perspective, and provides policy recommendation to decision makers and agricultural-product producers. As such it serves as a supplement to textbooks on applied economics, agricultural and environmental economics, and offers students and professionals in agricultural economics, resource economics, risk management, and food policy as well as general economists real-world examples of the principles under discussion. Further, it includes an extensive range of case studies from different regions of the country, which could be applied in agricultural policy making process, making it a useful resource for agricultural planners and decision makers in government agencies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811362828
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	03/13/2019
Series:	Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	187
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Masoomeh Rashidghalam is a researcher at the University of Tabriz, Iran. She holds a PhD from the University of Tabriz (2017), and her research interests include productivity and efficiency, development economics, agricultural economics, farm management, microeconomics, production economics, labor studies, and poverty and wellbeing. She has extensive teaching experience in the field of econometrics, agricultural production economics and microeconomics.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to sustainable agriculture and agribusiness in Iran.- 2. Agricultural Risk Management Through Weather-based Insurance in Iran.- 3. Determining Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) for Food Industry Companies’ Sks Portfolios in the Tehran Sk Market.- 4. Assessing Climate Change impacts on Land-Use in Iran: The Spatial Fractional Multinomial Logit Modeling Approach.- 5. Estimating the Non-use Values and Related Compensative Surplus of Arasbaran Forests in Iran: An Application of the Choice Experiment Method.- 6. Optimized Reservoir Management for meeting Conflicting Stakeholder Preferences: Methodological Innovations with Evidence from Iran.- 7. Willingness-to-Pay for IPM: An Application of the Heckman-Copula Approach.- 8. Testing the Law of One Price Under Nonlinearity: An application to Iranian Broiler and Egg Markets.- 9. Assessing the Relationship between Marketing Mix and Customer Satisfaction: Evidence from Iranian Dairy Companies.- 10. Testing for Neutrality and Super-Neutrality of Money: Evidence from Iran’s Agricultural Sector.- 11. Effects of Oil Prices and Exchange Rates on Imported Inputs’ prices for the Livesk and Poultry Industry in Iran.