ABSTRACT

Conservation agriculture (CA) has been promoted worldwide as an approach to sustainable resource management and better productivity. Promotion and adoption of CA in Iran have been receiving increased attention from the national government over recent years. Therefore, to speed up development of CA as a basis for sustainable development, drivers that influence the development of CA need to be identified and modeled. The main aim of this study is to present a comprehensive model for CA development in Iran by identifying the institutional drivers that influence its promotion and determining the relationship between drivers. At first, the drivers identified from the literature and interviews with experts, and the relationships among the drivers were explored and clarified using Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM). A cross-impact matrix multiplication was applied to classification (MICMAC) analysis, which was then used to categorize the drivers in four sub-groups. The results showed that creating a suitable organizational structure is a very significant driving factor for CA development in Iran. Strong driving power and weak dependence associated with this factor should be treated as a critical driver. If CA shall expand more rapidly in future, then Iran’s government should invest in an appropriate organizational structure for it.

摘要

保护性农业（CA）已在世界范围内推广，作为一种可持续资源管理和更高生产率的方法。近年来，在伊朗推广和采用CA受到了中央政府的越来越多的关注。因此，为了加快CA的发展作为可持续发展的基础，需要确定和建模影响CA发展的驱动因素。这项研究的主要目的是通过确定影响其推广的机构驱动因素并确定驱动因素之间的关系，为伊朗CA发展提供一个综合模型。首先，从文献和专家访谈中识别出驱动因素，并使用解释性结构模型（ISM）探索和阐明驱动因素之间的关系。将交叉影响矩阵乘法应用于分类（MICMAC）分析，然后将其用于将驱动程序分类为四个子组。结果表明，建立合适的组织结构是伊朗CA发展的非常重要的驱动因素。与该因素相关的强大驱动力和较弱的依赖性应视为关键驱动因素。如果CA将来能更快地扩展，那么伊朗政府应为其投资适当的组织结构。与该因素相关的强大驱动力和较弱的依赖性应视为关键驱动因素。如果CA将来能更快地扩展，那么伊朗政府应为其投资适当的组织结构。与该因素相关的强大驱动力和较弱的依赖性应视为关键驱动因素。如果CA将来能更快地扩展，那么伊朗政府应为其投资适当的组织结构。