Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness in Iran (Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region)

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. 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 Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness in Iran (Masoomeh Rashidghalam)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Agricultural Risk Management Through Weather-Based Insurance in Iran (Esmaeil Pishbahar, Sahar Abedi, Ghader Dashti, Ali KianiRad)....Pages 11-28 Determining Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) for Food Industry Companies’ Stocks Portfolios in the Tehran Stock Market (Sahar Abedi, Esmaeil Pishbahar)....Pages 29-45 Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Land Use in Iran: The Spatial Fractional Multinomial Logit Modeling Approach (Khadijeh Alefi, Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh)....Pages 47-59 Front Matter ....Pages 61-61 Estimating the Non-use Values and Related Compensative Surplus of Arasbaran Forests in Iran: An Application of the Choice Experiment Method (Maryam Haghjou, Babollah Hayati, Esmaeil Pishbahar, Morteza Molaei)....Pages 63-77 Optimized Reservoir Management for Meeting Conflicting Stakeholder Preferences: Methodological Innovations with Evidence from Iran (Omid Zamani, Hemen Nader, Masoomeh Rashidghalam, Frank A. Ward)....Pages 79-100 Willingness to Pay for IPM: An Application of the Heckman-Copula Approach (Esmaeil Pishbahar, Javad Hosseinzad, Sahar Abedi, Pariya Bageri)....Pages 101-114 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 Testing the Law of One Price Under Nonlinearity: An Application to Iranian Broiler and Egg Markets (Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh, Fatemeh Faryadi, Ghader Dashti)....Pages 117-133 Assessing the Relationship Between Marketing Mix and Customer Satisfaction: Evidence from Iranian Dairy Companies (Esmaeil Pishbahar, Roya Ferdowsi, Babollah Hayati)....Pages 135-149 Testing for Neutrality and Super-neutrality of Money: Evidence from Iran’s Agricultural Sector (Esmaeil Pishbahar, Zahra Rasouli)....Pages 151-161 Effects of Oil Prices and Exchange Rates on Imported Inputs’ Prices for the Livestock and Poultry Industry in Iran (Esmaeil Pishbahar, Parisa Pakrooh, Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh)....Pages 163-182 Back Matter ....Pages 183-187