Determination and Prioritization of Barriers to consolidation of Agricultural Land in Iran

Understanding the bottlenecks and problems of agricultural development in rural communities is the first step in the rural development process. Most of the new ideas about land consolidation have generally been raised but it has not been successful. In this regard, this study was conducted with the aim of overcoming the obstacles of agricultural land integration in Iran based on the viewpoint of experts based on multi criteria decision.

The statistical population of the study consisted of 25 faculty members and experts who were knowledgeable about land management and micro scattering in different parts of Iran. To examine the barriers to integration of the 43 identified barriers in six main formats (economic, social and cultural, agronomic and ecological, educational and professional, political and legal, technical and infrastructure) based on four index, agricultural development, Priority, self-sufficiency, poverty alleviation and food insecurity were prioritized. Weighting of the index was done based on the entropy method and prioritize barriers based on two approaches Saw and Morris.