نشریه راهبردهای توسعه روستایی
سال پنجم شماره 3 (پیاپی 19، پاییز 1397)

The purpose of this study was to investigate components affecting farmers' participation in irrigation management (case of Khoy County). This study was causal-relationship and a survey was conducted. The study population were all farmers in the Khoy County in the crop year 2015-16 (N=19088) and a number of 379 number of people were chosen using the Krejcie and Morgan table (1970) and stratified sampling with proportional allocation as research samples. The data collection tool was a questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by professors and experts and its reliability was determined by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient between 0.72 and 0.85. The obtained data were analyzed using the SPSSv19 software. According to the results, the participation of farmers in irrigation management was evaluated at a good level. The results showed that the independent variables including farmers' attitude toward their participation in irrigation management, awareness of the consequences of participation in irrigation management, suitability of the technical factors in irrigation network, use of farmers from information sources, social norms toward participation in water management, farmers' attitude toward agricultural extension personnel, farmers' sociability and attitude toward water officials and experts with dependent variable of participation in irrigation management had had positive relationship and significant at 1 percent level. The results of stepwise regression analysis showed that the mentioned variables explained 75 percent of the variance of the participation in irrigation management.

The agriculture sector though is one of the most important economic sectors in the country, but is faced with major limitations. The purpose of this research is to study the barriers of agricultural development from farmers perspectives in the Qaratureh district. The statistical population of the study consisted of 2800 farmers from 27 villages of the Qaratureh district. The statistical population mentioned included, a number 338 farmers who were selected by using stratified random sampling method and based on Krejcie and Morgan tables. Instrument for compilation of data was a questionnaire. To ensure the validity of the questionnaire expert panels were used and for the reliability Cronbach's alpha was used and its amount was obtained to be 0.84. Based on the results obtained in communication with barriers of agricultural development in the studied case region, 30 variables, with using factor analysis technique were summarized into five factors infrastructural, economic-managerial, natural, cultural and educational. The results showed that based on farmers perspectives, the infrastructural factor was the first barrier of region agricultural development. This factor explain about 24/40% of the total variance of the research variables. One of the major problems in the Qaratureh District is the lack of water. Part of this problem is lack of infrastructure and it is related in part to lack of financial resources and lack of farm capital. Therefore, it is suggested that the government supports farmers in order to establish agricultural development infrastructure such as Land Consolidation, water canalization, Sprinkler irrigation systems development, leveling and drainage lands and Granting of bank facilities.

The study of literature on rural development and planning shows that one of the most well-known rural development strategies is entrepreneurship. Hence, what is at stake here is the importance of the role of rural entrepreneurship and rural business. In this regard, this research aims to analyze the factors affecting entrepreneurship in the rural tourism sector, which is descriptive-analytical in terms of its nature and method and with regard to its intended purposes. The statistical population in this study was the population living in the villages of Zoeram Township. According to the modified version of Cochran, 131 questionnaires were prepared. The data and data were collected in 2017 using library and field studies (observation and completion of questionnaires). After collecting data from the questionnaire, using simple random sampling, data obtained after encoding were analyzed by descriptive and analytic statistical methods using the SPSS and AMOS software. The results showed that economic, social, natural - ecological and organizational factors are effective in creating rural tourism space. And the weakness of the individual situation with the least amount of evidence suggests that it has a negative effect on the creation of a tourism entrepreneurial environment, which can even be regarded as an effective barrier, in spite of a progressive barrier with creative intellectual enhancement and entrepreneurship can be transformed into an opportunity and improved conditions.

Natural resource projects have several objectives at various levels of technical, social policy which mainly include control and eradication of erosion and waste water, optimizing the use of water and soil resources, increasing production of watersheds, including plant and animal husbandry, increase in income of residents of watersheds and reducing damage caused by soil erosion and floods and other goals. In natural resources and watershed management programs, it is necessary to consider the social, economic and organizational factors affecting both inside and outside the watershed. This research was carried out with the aim of evaluating the actions of natural resources and watershed management on the social and economic situation of beneficiaries that are living in the basin, such as people's satisfaction and attitude, popular participation, and popular acceptance of the projects. Also, the effects of project implementation in terms of stakeholders in Ghareshiran basin where natural resource projects have been implemented has also been studied. This research is a descriptive-correlational research. The statistical population of this research, using the Cochran formula, consisted of 200 family caretakers from the beneficiaries and residents of this area, who were questioned by systematic random sampling. A questionnaire was used to determine the validity of the data. Validity was confirmed by a specialist. SPSS software was used to determine the reliability and Cronbach's alpha was 0.78. Based on the results, the implementation of plans in the region, the income situation of 35%, the yield and the cost of water products increased 26%, the yield and the cost of garden products 10%, and the yield of forage production 12%. Also, the greatest effect of implementation of the implemented projects in the region on the flood disaster problem with an average of 1.01 and improving the economic situation of the operators was 1.70. It had little effect on the reduction of immigration and unemployment.

Water issues have become one of the key issues in the Iranian environment. in Iran, nevertheless water scarcity, The water consumption is beyond international standards and highest level of water loss is in the agricultural sector. Such as solutions for the efficient use and more effective water is coping strategies. The success of these strategies, depends on the behavior of farmers as actors. The present research studies the social backgrounds in groundwater conservation policies. The sample was composed of 120 farm-owners of water rights in the central part of Qazvin Plain. For this study, the survey method was used and the instrument to collect the data was questionnaire with several parts of the assessment. The results of this study indicate that participation in the groundwater resource conservation strategies in farmers requires the existence of a social context. This depends on the type of intergroup and outsourcing of farmers. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between social capital with the surveyed farmers. The research ended up with explaining about possible reasons of farmers’ different level of support and some suggestions were for futures studies.

Nowadays, security is considered as the most important principle in developing a strategy for tourism development in the world. Security and tourism are parameters of an equation that have a direct relationship with one another. The purpose of this study is to investigate and evaluate the impact of social security on the development of tourism in the village of Sarab Harsam that is located on West Islamabad. Inhabitants of Sarab-e- Harsam's village with a population of 473 people are the statistical community According to the Cochran formula the sample size was 112. The indicators were designed for preparing the questionnaire were health security, safety and financial security, communications security and tourism development in the form of 43 variables. The formal validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. The study was conducted in the same area with the population of 30 and the questionnaire and the data were analyzed using the special formula of Cronbach’s alpha in the SPSS software. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.82. To analyze the data, the SPSS20 software was used. The results of the analysis of data indicated among social security indicators, the Health security index has the greatest impact on tourism development and the communications security index has had the least impact. And in general, social security has been able to promote tourism in the village.

The presence of recent droughts in Iran is considered to be one of the most important natural hazards that has many effects and consequences, especially in rural areas. The difficulty of livelihood in rural households is one of these consequences. This descriptive-survey study was conducted to analyze the factors affecting the livelihoods of rural households during drought in Alashtar town. The analytical framework used in this study is the sustainable livelihood framework. In this study, descriptive, analytical and correlation methods have been used. The statistical population in this research is the total head of rural households in Alastair (N = 7000). According to Krejcie and Morgan table, the sample size of this study is 364 households who were selected by the multi-stage sampling method. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by the professors of the extension and education department of Razi University of Kermanshah and its reliability was confirmed by the Cronbach alpha coefficient. The results showed that the greatest impact on household income is related to social capital and the least is related to financial capital. According to the results, human capital and social capital have had a major impact on the explanation of drought resistance. Moreover with regard to the beta, physical capital plays the most role in predicting drought resistance.

Fragmentation of small agricultural lands and traditional agricultural lands in Iran is one the largest factors responsible for agricultural production and employment is responsible. The system mainly consists of 10 acres called the micro and the peasantry, and each operator will usually include a family operation. This pattern of operation with features such as organizational and structural weaknesses, low level of education and technical knowledge, scatter plots of agricultural land, the lack of efficient use of resources in production, low yield per hectare, high production costs, low income farmers and the non-economic and non-economic well-known performance. In this research, in order to calculate and determine the efficiency level of the small peasant exploitation system the data for 2014 were collected and data envelopment analysis was used. The statistical population of this study is 9600 small peasant below ten acres. Bu using multi-stage sampling method for subjects the sample size was 48, and a total of 60 questionnaires were completed with high precision. The results of the research showed that the average technical, allocation and economic efficiency of small peasant farms studied in the Miyaneh city is respectively equal to 60.03, 60.06, 34.02. This suggests an increase in technical efficiency of 39.7 percent, an allocation efficiency of 39.4 percent, and an economic efficiency of 65.8 percent. This indicates weaknesses in existing technical knowledge, farm management, and lack of use of scale optimization.