Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness in Iran

194 Pages·2019·3.91 MB·English

by  Masoomeh Rashidghalam

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Masoomeh Rashidghalam    Editor
Sustainable
Agriculture and
Agribusiness in
Iran
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and Agribusiness in Iran
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MasoomehRashidghalam
Department ofAgricultural Economics
University of Tabriz
Tabriz, Iran
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Contents
1 Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness
in Iran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Masoomeh Rashidghalam
Part I Risk Management and Climate Change
2 Agricultural Risk Management Through Weather-Based
Insurance in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Esmaeil Pishbahar, Sahar Abedi, Ghader Dashti and Ali KianiRad
3 Determining Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) for Food
Industry Companies’ Stocks Portfolios in the Tehran
Stock Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Sahar Abedi and Esmaeil Pishbahar
4 Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Land Use in Iran:
The Spatial Fractional Multinomial Logit Modeling
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Khadijeh Alefi and Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh
Part II Natural Resources and Environmental Economics
5 Estimating the Non-use Values and Related Compensative
Surplus of Arasbaran Forests in Iran: An Application
of the Choice Experiment Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Maryam Haghjou, Babollah Hayati, Esmaeil Pishbahar
and Morteza Molaei
6 Optimized Reservoir Management for Meeting Conflicting
Stakeholder Preferences: Methodological Innovations
with Evidence from Iran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Omid Zamani, Hemen Nader, Masoomeh Rashidghalam
and Frank A. Ward
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7 Willingness to Pay for IPM: An Application of the Heckman-
Copula Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
EsmaeilPishbahar,JavadHosseinzad,SaharAbediandPariyaBageri
Part III Agricultural Prices and Commodity Market Analysis
8 Testing the Law of One Price Under Nonlinearity:
An Application to Iranian Broiler and Egg Markets . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh, Fatemeh Faryadi and Ghader Dashti
9 Assessing the Relationship Between Marketing Mix
and Customer Satisfaction: Evidence from Iranian
Dairy Companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Esmaeil Pishbahar, Roya Ferdowsi and Babollah Hayati
10 Testing for Neutrality and Super-neutrality of Money:
Evidence from Iran’s Agricultural Sector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Esmaeil Pishbahar and Zahra Rasouli
11 Effects of Oil Prices and Exchange Rates on Imported Inputs’
Prices for the Livestock and Poultry Industry in Iran . . . . . . . . . . 163
EsmaeilPishbahar,ParisaPakroohandMohammadGhahremanzadeh
Index .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 183
Editor and Contributors
About the Editor
Masoomeh Rashidghalam is Researcher at University of Tabriz. She did her
B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Tabriz
and holds a M.Sc. from Tarbiat Modares University. She was a visiting scholar in
Sweden and South Korea (in Departmentof Economics at Jönköping International
Business School (JIBS) and Department of Economics at Sogang University). She
was an assistant in organization of “ADB Workshop on Urbanization in Asia,”
Seoul.Dr.Rashidghalam’sareasofexpertiseareagriculturalproductioneconomics,
farm management, poverty and inequality, child well-being, labor economics,
urbanization, and technical efficiency measurement. She has a wide range of
teaching experience in econometrics, agricultural production economics, and
microeconomics. She has written a book: Measurement and Analysis of
Performance ofIndustrialCrop Production:TheCase ofIran’sCottonandSugar
Beet Production, 2018, published by Springer. She has contributed different
chapters to six books.
Contributors
SaharAbedi DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomics,UniversityofTabriz,Tabriz,
Iran
Khadijeh Alefi Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Pariya Bageri Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Ghader Dashti Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
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Fatemeh Faryadi Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Roya Ferdowsi Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh Department of Agricultural Economics,
University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Maryam Haghjou Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Babollah Hayati Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Javad Hosseinzad Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Ali KianiRad Agricultural Economics-Research, Deputy-APERDRI-Ministry of
Agriculture, Tehran, Iran
Morteza Molaei Department of Agricultural Economics, Urmia University,
Urmia, Iran
HemenNader DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomics,UniversityofZabol,Zabol,
Iran
Parisa Pakrooh Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Esmaeil Pishbahar Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Masoomeh Rashidghalam Department of Agricultural Economics, University of
Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Zahra Rasouli Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran
Frank A. Ward Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural
Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
Omid Zamani Department of Agricultural Market Analysis, Institute of
Agricultural Economics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany;
Leibniz-InstitutfürAgrartechnikundBioökonomiee.V.(ATB),Potsdam,Germany