The present descriptive correlational study focused on assessing the social sustainability of intercropping-based family farming systems and agricultural cooperative systems with a systemic approach. The statistical population was composed of the villages in Shiraz County of Fars Province, Iran that were engaged in intercropping and production cooperative systems. In the first step, 186 farmers who were using intercropping-based family farming system were taken by enumeration technique. In the second step, 200 members of the agricultural cooperatives of this county were sampled by the stratified random sampling technique with proportional allocation. The research instrument was a self-designed questionnaire, and data were analyzed by the SPSS₂₂ software package. The results showed that the components of existence and effectiveness were assigned with the highest weight in family farming systems and the components of coexistence and adaptability were allocated with the highest weight in the cooperative systems. The results of the assessment by Morris’ model implied that none of the components of social sustainability was at a sustainable level. The results of discriminant analysis of farmers’ characteristics in terms of social sustainability level revealed that nine components could account for social sustainability level: literacy level, coexistence, family size, income, freedom of action, existence, equality, accountability, and effectiveness.

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使用系统方法评估伊朗农业部门的社会可持续发展组成部分

本描述性相关研究的重点是通过系统的方法评估基于间作的家庭农业系统和农业合作社系统的社会可持续性。统计人口由伊朗法尔斯省设拉子县的村庄组成，这些村庄从事间作和生产合作社系统。第一步，通过枚举技术，对186个采用间作家庭农业系统的农民进行了调查。第二步，采用按比例分配的分层随机抽样技术，对该县200个农业合作社成员进行抽样。该研究工具是一个自行设计的调查问卷，数据由SPSS ₂₂分析软件包。结果表明，在家庭耕作系统中，存在性和有效性的成分被赋予最高的权重，而在合作系统中，共存和适应性的成分被赋予最高的权重。莫里斯模型的评估结果表明，社会可持续性的组成要素均未达到可持续水平。根据社会可持续性水平对农民特征进行判别分析的结果表明，有九个要素可以解释社会可持续性水平：识字水平，共存，家庭规模，收入，行动自由，生存，平等，问责制和有效性。