Sahraei Salman, Pakravan-Charvadeh Mohammad Reza, Gholamrezai Saeed, Rahimian Mehdi
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
Front Nutr. 2022 Oct 20;9:899427. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.899427. eCollection 2022.
Due to the importance of sustainability in the world, we follow the missing pieces of the puzzle of sustainable agriculture and food security as a huge gap in the literature. To achieve this goal, a survey was analyzed to assess the linkage between these two concepts in the rural areas in Lorestan province in Iran. The status of food security was assessed using US Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM). A standard questionnaire extracted from the related literature was applied to calculate sustainability indicators. The results showed that the status of food security among households with no children (70%) was better than those with one or more children (28%). According to the Tobit model, none of the sustainability dimensions had a significant association with food insecurity. The results support the fact that the assessment of agricultural sustainability at the microeconomic level, short-term period, and a small, specified location cannot lead to reliable results due to the similar behaviors of farmers in these areas. The low level of agricultural sustainability is due to the lack of macroeconomic policies in the region to promote and disseminate the principles of sustainability, lack of plans and actions to promote sustainability by stakeholders and policymakers, ignorance of the target community, as subsistence producers who fall into a deprivation trap. The results suggest that policymakers should use two short-term and long-term strategies to improve the level of agricultural sustainability and increase food security status.
鉴于可持续性在全球的重要性，我们关注可持续农业与粮食安全这一难题中缺失的部分，因为这在文献中是一个巨大的空白。为实现这一目标，我们分析了一项调查，以评估伊朗洛雷斯坦省农村地区这两个概念之间的联系。粮食安全状况采用美国家庭粮食安全调查模块（HFSSM）进行评估。从相关文献中提取的标准问卷用于计算可持续性指标。结果显示，无子女家庭的粮食安全状况（70%）优于有一个或多个子女的家庭（28%）。根据托宾模型，可持续性的各个维度与粮食不安全均无显著关联。结果支持了这样一个事实，即在微观经济层面、短期以及一个小的特定地点对农业可持续性进行评估，由于这些地区农民行为相似，无法得出可靠结果。农业可持续性水平较低是由于该地区缺乏促进和传播可持续性原则的宏观经济政策，利益相关者和政策制定者缺乏促进可持续性的计划和行动，以及作为陷入贫困陷阱的自给自足生产者的目标群体的无知。结果表明，政策制定者应采用短期和长期两种策略来提高农业可持续性水平并提升粮食安全状况。
