مجله رویکردهای پژوهشی کارآفرینانه در کشاورزی
پیاپی 4 (زمستان 1397)

Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy (ES) is one of the essential elements for individual engagement in real entrepreneurial activities. Therefore, so many of universities across the world attempted to increase the level of students’ ES. Meanwhile, scholars identified that educational component can affected relationships between entrepreneurial educations activities and students’ ES. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to analyzing the effect of educational components on students’ ES. The population of study was agriculture and Natural Resources University students in Razi University at Kermanshah. From that, 126 persons were selected as sample by using stratified random sampling (based on gender). A researcher-made questionnaire was the main tool for collecting research data which experts confirmed its validity, and its reliability confirmed by calculating the ordinal theta (θ = 0.74 – 0.88). Data were analyzed using SPSSWin20 and R software. Finding of compare analysis showed that there are no significant differences between students’ ES. Moreover, a positive and significant relationship between educational components and students’ ES was observed. Finally, results of ordinal regression indicated that the educational components are good predictor for develop of students’ ES and in total explained about 27.10% of variances of students’ ES.

Mashhad, with many tourist attractions, has one of the fields of acquiring business based on crafts The purpose of this study is to investigate the pattern of production network and sale of woven woolen (Jajim) hand bags in Mashhad in 2016.The information obtained from this business network under the name of Mehrbano, whose is operated in privately and cooperatively and it is the provider of the highest women's empowerment services in the field of souvenir production in the holy Mashhad, is investigated. Business operations are in the form of groups and networks including Research and Development (R & D) Group and Production and Sales Group. The primary goal in this business is to produce bag with an average of about 9,000 per month. Costs and incomes of this business network were analyzed using the finance add-in in excel software. The results showed that the internal rate of return (IRR) is 40.3 %, which is a significant percentage for the economic feasibility of the project. Therefore, it is suggested that, with the help to developing such plans through the establishment of appropriate facilities the field of economic development and maximum productivity of available force in society was providec and increase the rate of production and economic development significantly in the long term.

The aim of this study was to determine the most important barriers of implementing strategic management in the Iranian Agricultural Extension and Education. To accomplish this objective the Delphi technique of obtaining group consensus was employed. The study used a series of three questionnaires, engaging a panel of agricultural extension and education experts (n=28). The first round of the study used a questionnaire with an open-ended question. In the second questionnaire, respondents were asked to rate the items identified in round one on a five-point Likert-type scale. In the third round panel members were asked to indicate whether they agreed or disagreed with the statements from round two. The third and final round produced consensus on 26 of the statements from round three. The 26 barriers identified by the Delphi technique were classified into five components: Attitudes and organizational culture, knowledge and expertise, rewards and performance, content and planning, and structural and infrastructural barriers.

Environmental crises and challenges such as population growth and rising food prices that have been growing over the last few decades and now are on the verge of deadlock and a point of no return, have turned the issue of environmental protection into a very serious issue in the contemporary world; thus, environmentalists have focused on the fundamental determinants of human interaction with nature, including ethics. Since human behavior is the main cause of environmental hazards, the attitude and behavior of humans towards the environment has been at the forefront of international attention in recent years. Given the close relationship between the village and environment, the ability of rural stakeholders to resolve environmental crises should be increased in any attempt to improve the environmental situation in a country. Therefore, since responsive evaluation is recognized as a promising research approach to facilitate dialogue and mutual learning and thereby improve stakeholders' ability to solve problems, the aim of this study is to provide a framework for implementing ethical behavior towards environment, considering the role of responsive evaluation in the conditions of Meydan village. But given the conditions of Meydan village, the responsive evaluation approach and thereby the framework of the present study were adapted to the social and cultural conditions of Meydan village. Finally, the operational model of the research was developed and implemented considering three pillars: A) social inclusion of subsidiary and marginal stakeholders, B) improvement in the learning interaction of stakeholders, and C) improvement in intervention methods.

The general objective of this research was to analyze the Indigenous knowledge of rural women from Haftkel city in carpet-weaving using qualitative paradigm. The statistical population of the study included experienced members with over 10 years of experience in the field of carpet-weaving. Using a snowball sampling (chain reference), 12 subjects were selected for study, which the criterion for the specimen number was theoretical saturation. In this research, the concepts of carpet-weaving and its tools were studied from the viewpoint of the subjects. Also, the advantages and problems of carpet weaving were identified and their motivation in this field was investigated. In addition, the Indigenous knowledge of studied members on spinning was determined and ultimately, the role of carpet-weaving in their life and livelihood was explored. As a matter of fact, in this research, using a qualitative method, it was attempted to represent the indigenous knowledge of rural women in Haftkel In the field of carpetweaving.

The livestock sector, as one of the sub-sectors of agriculture, plays a major role in food security in the community. Contrary to the high level of production in the country's economy as a whole and in the agricultural economy, the producers of this sector have not been particularly respected by the researchers. In this research, the purpose of this study was to investigate the obstacles to development of traditional livestock units in Khorramabad city. The statistical population included rural dairy farmers in Khorramabad city (N = 12014) in the year 1396-97. From farmers' society, 175 people were selected using the Cochran formula as sample size. Then, ranchers were selected by multi-stage sampling method and the required data were collected by a questionnaire. Based on the results of exploratory factor analysis, the barriers to the development of traditional livestock units in Khorramabad County ranked respectively in nine categories; (1) environmental obstacles to agriculture; (2) credits; prices; (3) familyoriented attitudes; (4) management; (5) socio-cultural; (6) educational-skill; (7) economic-financial; (8) support; Included. These factors were able to explain 71.48% of the total variance.