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Hamideh Maleksaeidi
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 6617-15175, Iran

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Journal article
Published: 23 March 2021 in Sustainability
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Sustainability has always been an emphasized topic in policy making and planning in the agricultural sector of developing countries. Despite this fact, sustainable agriculture has not been realized so far because of the various complex challenges in these countries. The lack of a structured scientific research on these challenges prompted us to conduct a study to fill this research gap and to create useful knowledge on this issue. In this regard, 300 Iranian agricultural experts, selected through stratified random sampling technique, were interviewed to explore and prioritize challenges threatening agricultural sustainability in the west of Iran. Findings indicated water scarcity and low productivity beside environmental and climate disasters were the most important challenges from the viewpoint of the participants. Moreover, insufficient investment in the agricultural sector and management weakness at the macro and micro levels were other significant challenges from the perspective of experts. Results of exploratory factor analysis indicated that the challenges threatening agricultural sustainability can be divided into nine categories including lack of investment and liquidity; environmental and climate disasters; scientific weakness; weakness of labor force in the agricultural sector; management problems; weakness of information systems; low agricultural productivity and lack of attention to quality; challenges related to agricultural inputs; and global challenges. This 9-factor structure, which confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis, was able to explain 67.52% of the variance related to the challenges threatening agricultural sustainability in the west of Iran.

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Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Mohammad Jalali; Farzad Eskandari. Challenges Threatening Agricultural Sustainability in the West of Iran: Viewpoint of Agricultural Experts. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3537 .

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Hamideh Maleksaeidi, Mohammad Jalali, Farzad Eskandari. Challenges Threatening Agricultural Sustainability in the West of Iran: Viewpoint of Agricultural Experts. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3537.

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Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Mohammad Jalali; Farzad Eskandari. 2021. "Challenges Threatening Agricultural Sustainability in the West of Iran: Viewpoint of Agricultural Experts." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3537.

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Published: 09 January 2020 in Global Ecology and Conservation
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Environmental quality strongly depends on the human behavior patterns. University students as a part of the young people of the community endure the burden of the past and current carelessness towards the environment. At the same time, they are the significant people who gain technical knowledge essential for advancing suitable solutions to change environmental behavior. Therefore, developing scientific knowledge on what inspire them to behave pro-environmentally is a significant area of concern that has practicable usages for moving on the way a sustainable future. In an examination of pro-environmentally related behavior, we used the protection motivation theory as a framework for explaining pro-environmental behavior of a sample of 310 Iranian students. Analysis indicated that the protection motivation theory constructs along with environmental attitude are able for explaining a significant portion of the variance in pro-environmental behavior. Based on the results, environmental attitude, self-efficacy, perceived costs of pro-environmental behavior and perceived intrinsic and extrinsic rewards of current environmentally unfriendly behaviors were the direct determinants of pro-environmental behavior, while rewards indirectly influenced pro-environmental behavior via environmental attitude and response costs. Also, response efficacy through self-efficacy had an indirect influence on pro-environmental behavior. Overall, considering the importance of environmental attitudes and self-efficacy, using measures and incentives to improve students’ attitude on the necessity of environmental protection and improving their sense of self-efficacy can help increase the likelihood of pro-environmental behaviors in community.

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Arezu Shafiei; Hamideh Maleksaeidi. Pro-environmental behavior of university students: Application of protection motivation theory. Global Ecology and Conservation 2020, 22, e00908 .

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Arezu Shafiei, Hamideh Maleksaeidi. Pro-environmental behavior of university students: Application of protection motivation theory. Global Ecology and Conservation. 2020; 22 ():e00908.

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Arezu Shafiei; Hamideh Maleksaeidi. 2020. "Pro-environmental behavior of university students: Application of protection motivation theory." Global Ecology and Conservation 22, no. : e00908.

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Published: 24 September 2019 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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In the context of climate variability and change, application of treated wastewater for irrigation is an appropriate approach to cope with the water scarcity in arid and semi-arid regions. Farmers will adopt treated wastewater if they perceive it as an economically beneficial, socially acceptable, environmentally sound, and have little or no health risks. However, few studies have investigated the sustainability of wastewater irrigated farms. Also, almost all the studies have focused only on the farmers’ attitude or field observation data, which can underestimate the wastewater impacts on the agricultural sustainability. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate farmers’ attitude towards economic, social, environmental and health sustainability of wastewater irrigated farms. To prevent misleading, the economic and environmental impacts of wastewater were validated with real field observations. A survey of 197 wastewater and freshwater users of Marvdasht County, Iran, selected through a systematic random sampling method indicated that wastewater users had more positive attitude towards the economic, social and environmental sustainability of wastewater irrigated agriculture. However, field data analysis did not support the farmer’s optimistic views and revealed that long-term application of wastewater could intensify the concentration of heavy metals in the soil and water, reduce the quality of soil, plant and water and also threat the farmers and consumer’s health. This implies that sustainable implementation of wastewater use projects depends on the psychological support of the farmers and consideration of real impacts of the wastewater resources on the human and environment. Some recommendations are offered to improve sustainable wastewater management.

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Masoud Khanpae; Ezatollah Karami; Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Marzieh Keshavarz. Farmers’ attitude towards using treated wastewater for irrigation: The question of sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production 2019, 243, 118541 .

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Masoud Khanpae, Ezatollah Karami, Hamideh Maleksaeidi, Marzieh Keshavarz. Farmers’ attitude towards using treated wastewater for irrigation: The question of sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2019; 243 ():118541.

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Masoud Khanpae; Ezatollah Karami; Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Marzieh Keshavarz. 2019. "Farmers’ attitude towards using treated wastewater for irrigation: The question of sustainability." Journal of Cleaner Production 243, no. : 118541.

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Published: 02 July 2019 in Global Ecology and Conservation
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Earth's well-being depends mainly on the conservation of ecosystem goods and services. However, biodiversity is extensively threatened in agricultural landscapes. Since farmers' decisions and practices are the main determinant factors of on-farm biodiversity conservation, this study was conducted to clarify the underlying constructs of farmers' intention to preserve biodiversity. The Theory of Planned Behavior was applied to investigate the intention of a sample of 274 Iranian farmers towards on-farm biodiversity conservation. In order to increase the predictive power of this theory, the new constructs of knowledge, moral norm and perceived threats of intensified agriculture were added to the model. The results indicated that farmers have a moderate level of knowledge about the value and strategies of biodiversity conservation. Also, they have a favorable attitude toward preserving biodiversity. However, they do not perceive enough control to engage in biodiversity conservation practices. Furthermore, the findings revealed that attitude, perceived threats of intensified agriculture, knowledge, social norms and moral norms are the most relevant factors explaining the farmers' intentions toward biodiversity conservation. In general, the results presented evidence about effectiveness of the Theory of Planned Behavior and the extended model of planned behavior on assessing the farmers' intention to preserve biodiversity. Also, the findings reinforced the available evidence regarding the significance of moral norm and knowledge in development of environmental intention. Accordingly, a number of considerations about improving farmers' intention to preserve on-farm biodiversity are recommended.

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Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Marzieh Keshavarz. What influences farmers' intentions to conserve on-farm biodiversity? An application of the theory of planned behavior in fars province, Iran. Global Ecology and Conservation 2019, 20, e00698 .

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Hamideh Maleksaeidi, Marzieh Keshavarz. What influences farmers' intentions to conserve on-farm biodiversity? An application of the theory of planned behavior in fars province, Iran. Global Ecology and Conservation. 2019; 20 ():e00698.

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Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Marzieh Keshavarz. 2019. "What influences farmers' intentions to conserve on-farm biodiversity? An application of the theory of planned behavior in fars province, Iran." Global Ecology and Conservation 20, no. : e00698.

Journal article
Published: 12 June 2019 in Land Use Policy
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Insurance is acclaimed as a promising mechanism for resilience to climate extremes. However, in practice, few empirical studies have been done on the influence of livestock insurance on the household resilience of livestock herders to climate change. We advanced knowledge in this area by: a) estimating household resilience to climate change and identifying the typology of livestock herders in terms of resilience; b) assessing the influence of livestock insurance on the household resilience of livestock herders. Population of this survey research were all livestock herder households from 11 rural areas in Kermanshah County in the west of Iran. A proportional stratified random sampling technique was used for selecting 250 livestock herder households. Livestock herders were interviewed individually through a questionnaire. Cluster analysis indicated that the sample households were heterogeneous in terms of resilience and can be divided into three categories of low, medium and high resilient households. These households were also different in terms of average livestock insurance. Hierarchical regression analysis confirmed that number of insured livestock and perception of the livestock insurance services are the significant determinants of household resilience of livestock herders to climate change. Even though, income, livestock ownership and climate change perception were also other predictors of household resilience of livestock herders. Findings of this study will be helpful for policymakers, managers and insurance companies to pursue cost-effective insurance policies for building adaptation and resilience capacity to climate disasters among livestock herders.

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Tahereh Biglari; Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Farzad Eskandari; Mohammad Jalali. Livestock insurance as a mechanism for household resilience of livestock herders to climate change: Evidence from Iran. Land Use Policy 2019, 87, 104043 .

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Tahereh Biglari, Hamideh Maleksaeidi, Farzad Eskandari, Mohammad Jalali. Livestock insurance as a mechanism for household resilience of livestock herders to climate change: Evidence from Iran. Land Use Policy. 2019; 87 ():104043.

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Tahereh Biglari; Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Farzad Eskandari; Mohammad Jalali. 2019. "Livestock insurance as a mechanism for household resilience of livestock herders to climate change: Evidence from Iran." Land Use Policy 87, no. : 104043.