Designing a Strategic Model for Food Security in the Islamic Republic of Iran Emphasizing the role of agricultural mechanization

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Agricultural Mechanization Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 The Vice President of Islamic Republic of Iran and Head of the Department of Environment

Abstract

future challenges in developing countries such as feeding a growing population, poverty, protecting the environment and facing climate change, which can perpetuate hunger and malnutrition and reduce economic growth, leading to political instability and harm.It has required these countries to design their own strategies in agriculture. Looking at the situation in Iran, this article presents strategies for achieving sustainable food security, development-oriented strategies based on agricultural mechanization.
For this purpose, a matrix was created as an analytical framework that includes internal and external factors. On the one hand, it considers the current situation of food security in the country and with the help of time series models to estimate the future, the future of food security Predicts the continuation of the existing conditions and on the other hand, using regression analysis and correlation analysis, examines the relationship between mechanization symbols and functional manifestations and based on the results of these steps, proposes a strategic model for food security.

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