Shahla Choobchian

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Tarbiat Modares University | TMU · Department of Agricultural Extension and Education

PhD (Associate Professor)
Head of Department

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The vulnerability of rural communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, aside from presenting health threats and affecting individual well-being, has also given rise to social consequences. The participation of rural residents in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and its negative effects on the health of rural communities emphasizes the necessity of t...
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The increasing pressure on resources and the persistent failure to address global malnutrition are evident challenges. A significant contributing factor is the decline in the quality of production resources, particularly water. As a result, many countries and their experts have prioritized the need to balance resource consumption. To address the re...
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The current research aims to measure the different dimensions of renewable energy policy implementation and compare these dimensions with each other, focusing on Iran's agricultural sector. This analysis makes it possible to identify the strengths and weaknesses in implementing existing policies. The five dimensions include "organizational and inst...
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The purpose of this action was to recognize the elements of knowledge management that can aid in enhancing agriculture's capacity to address food shortages and provide essential products for food security. Also, identifying these components will help the agricultural sector to compete in the market and adapt to the pressures of global and local dem...
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In the face of climate change and the destructive impacts of human activities, identifying and evaluating the indicators of nature-based solutions has become a novel and effective approach for sustainable development, ecosystem restoration, and the protection of water systems. These approaches, with a focus on preserving and enhancing biodiversity,...
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Environmental cooperatives play a crucial role in environmental conservation, promoting sustainability, and providing nature-based solutions to mitigate the impacts of climate change in rural areas. These cooperatives, through local community participation and sustainable utilization of natural resources, contribute to improving agricultural manage...
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Climate change and drought are major challenges impacting ecosystems and human communities. These issues result in reduced soil quality, diminished water resources, and biodiversity loss. In this context, ecological restoration is proposed as an effective and sustainable solution to address these problems. This paper, prepared using library researc...
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Concerns about the over-extraction of groundwater and the environmental effects of that have increased the need to change mental patterns about water consumption. This study is aimed on the psychological analysis of the blockage of unauthorized water wells in the agricultural sector of Iran through the integration of PMT and TPB models. The researc...
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Foremost in dealing effectively with water conflicts is comprehensive analysis. The global surge in water conflicts, coupled with the imperfect success of solutions, initiatives, and policies, calls for a critical reevaluation of the paradigms that guide approaches to water conflicts. The approach taken—conflict management, resolution, or transform...
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of medicinal plants cultivation on rural livelihoods. To achieve this goal, firstly, using relevant literature and secondary sources, the data were collected, and then to determine the validity, a questionnaire was provided to a panel of subject experts, and pilot tests were used to determine the analysis...
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Climate change is one of the main crises in the world primarily due to greenhouse gas emissions. The agricultural sector is a key factor in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, this study aims to analyze farmers' intentions to use low-carbon agricultural technologies. Based on a theoretical framework adapted from the comprehensive action d...
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Agricultural endeavors, especially in developing nations, entail inherent risks. Amidst challenges related to capital and agricultural marketing, contract farming emerges as a highly effective strategy. It not only facilitates capital accumulation but also ensures consistent product sales, establishes fair pricing, and contributes to the overall ba...
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The current study’s objective was to present a conceptual model that using the Value-Belief-Norm theory, could forecast the behaviour of wheat producers in the West Azarbaijan Province. This study showed that the egoistic variable has a non-significant and negative correlation with pro-environmental behavior and the new environmental paradigm. In a...
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Life on Earth is both challenging and beautiful. Reclaiming Eden is about responsible living, engineering, and architecture, aiming to mitigate environmental deterioration by reclaiming land around the world to an ecologically sustainable stage. These endeavors will enable us to pass forward a beautiful tomorrow for our grandchildren in the long ru...
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Despite advancements in meeting various human needs, energy supply remains a top priority for all countries worldwide. The escalating energy consumption in the agricultural sector underscores the necessity to scrutinize its energy usage. Presently, there exists an absence of a precise tool for accurately measuring this consumption. Hence, this stud...
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"Nature-based solutions" can help reduce the induced effects of climate change, but in this study, we will briefly study the relationships in which nature-based solutions are considered in different areas for climate change mitigation and adaptation in rural areas. The information and statistics needed to conduct the research have been collected us...
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Fisheries tourism is a relatively new style of tourism in many countries, which has brought many benefits to both sectors by merging the tourism and fishing sectors. To create and develop fisheries tourism, the participation of the local community, including the fishermen community, as one of the most important groups related to fisheries tourism,...
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Introduction: Innovation is a fundamental component of agricultural infrastructure, fostering the sector's development and productivity. Innovation indices tailored to the farm level are benchmarks for assessing innovation within this agricultural context. Therefore, this study aims to discover, localize, and validate comprehensive innovation measu...
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Since climate change has negative consequences for agricultural production and people's livelihoods, there is an increased need for flexibility in agricultural systems. The cultivation of medicinal plants is crucial for livelihoods and water resource conservation, making it an effective strategy to achieve resilience in agricultural systems and red...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the components of improving the welfare of rural households that are members and non-members of rural production cooperatives in Miandoab Township. The present research was conducted using a survey and descriptive-correlational methodology. The size of the target population includes 17493 rural househ...
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Agricultural innovation is crucial for navigating the dynamic market landscape and overcoming the diverse challenges posed by the current economic climate. It serves as a primary driver for both social advancement and economic prosperity, embodying the transformative force necessary for sustainable progress. Specifically, eco-friendly innovation no...
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This study aimed to examine the quality of life (QoL) in the rural regions of Tehran metropolis in Iran, with a focus on the large population of rural migrants residing there. To conduct the study, a total of 61,402 households residing in the rural areas of Tehran metropolis were considered as the statistical population. To obtain a sample that acc...
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Fisheries tourism is one of the types of tourism that has not received much attention in Iran, despite its good status. The benefits of the tourism industry with the high potential of the fisheries and fishing industry can provide an ideal option to connect the two industries in order to leave the difficult conditions of the fishery areas and move...
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In the past decades, the climate change has affected the stability of the production of the agricultural sector, especially the water security component of the exploitation units in global scale and in Iran. In this regards, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the perception of water resources experts about the challenges...
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To achieve effective policy relations, it is necessary first to reform the decision-making network for water resources, adjust the power of government institutions, and involve stakeholder organizations, non-governmental organizations, academics, and individuals concerned about water and the environment to restore water governance in the country. I...
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To achieve effective policy relations, it is necessary first to reform the decision-making network for water resources, adjust the power of government institutions, and involve stakeholder organizations, non-governmental organizations, academics, and individuals concerned about water and the environment to restore water governance in the country. I...
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Over the past decade, the increase in population, pollution of water sources, climate change, excessive extraction of underground water have fueled the reduction of water resources, and Hamedan province has experienced severe water insecurity conditions. Therefore, the present study was conducted to analyze indicators of the adaptive capacity of ag...
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The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus is a comprehensive and holistic approach aimed at achieving sustainable development in agricultural communities within economic, social, and environmental contexts. Given the challenges faced by the agricultural sector, such as climate change and water scarcity, which have become transboundary and global issues, t...
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The present study was developed to comprehensively analyze experts' views and content of documents focusing on goals and criteria of sustainable waste management system in Tehran, Iran. To this end, the suitable goals for sustainable waste management system in Tehran city were adopted from domestic, national and international documents. For this pu...
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The current study investigates the role of forests and water-energy-food nexus simultaneously for mitigating to climate change and helping ecosystems. The water-energy-food nexus is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach which investigates its triple resources to social, environmental, cultural and political contexts while studies abou...
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Organic agriculture is a potential approach to achieving a healthy and safe food system to reach sustainable agricultural development. This study’s goal was to evaluate the strategic situation of organic farming development in Mazandaran province in the north of Iran. This inquiry is qualitative in terms of paradigm, is applied in terms of the...
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Organic agriculture is a potential approach to achieving a healthy and safe food system to reach sustainable agricultural development. This study's goal was to evaluate the strategic situation of organic farming development in Mazandaran province in the north of Iran. This inquiry is qualitative in terms of paradigm, is applied in terms of the type...
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بخش کشاورزی و صنایع وابسته به آن از پایه¬های اصلی اقتصاد کشورهای مختلف به ویژه کشورهای در حال توسعه می¬باشد وکشت گیاهان دارویی یکی از زیربخش‌های قابل تامل در این بخش است. ایران با برخورداری از شرایط اقلیمی و جغرافیایی مناسب، زادگاه طیف وسیعی از گیاهان دارویی محسوب می¬شود. جایگاه و نقش گیاهان دارویی در مدیریت پایدار و اهمیت روزافزون آن به ویژه در اب...
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Achieving water security is one of the most important goals of policymakers in the world. Due to the fact that the identification of water security indicators in the agricultural sector is the most important criterion for checking the status of this resource in order to establish security in the agricultural sector. Therefore, the main goal of this...
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present study investigated the factors affecting the satisfaction and loyalty of tourists from ecotourism residences in Guilan province. The study was descriptive - correlation and conducted through a survey method. The statistical population of the study included all rural tourists of ecotourism residences in Guilan province in 2019 year. The samp...
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Achieving water security is one of the most important goals of policymakers in the world. Due to the fact that the identification of water security indicators in the agricultural sector is the most important criterion for checking the status of this resource in order to establish security in the agricultural sector. Therefore, the main goal of this...
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Climate change, Water management, and Food Security Abstract Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity in this century. It is worth noting that developing countries are more at risk due to their greater dependence on agriculture. Climate change with increasing temperature, changes in rainfall patterns, and increasing environm...
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Due to the high volume of their daily production, the optimal management of food waste is of special importance in all countries, especially from the environmental and health point of views. Because of its chemical and structural nature, this type of waste is easily decomposed and has a high potential to produce leachate and emit greenhouse gases,...
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Land use change (LUC) is one of the main factors of economic development, and humans have been changing land use for many years. Agricultural land conversion (ALC) is determined as a major process in many developing countries. The aim of this study was to investigate the widespread ALC and its main socio-economic impacts in developing countries dur...
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Today, wellness tourism has become a thriving industry. In wellness tourism, the tourists travel to relieve the pressures of ordinary life and become refreshed with no medicinal intervention. In wellness tourism, tourists seldom have any specific physical illnesses; rather, they are interested in enjoying the healing properties of certain regions....
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از نظر تاریخی گیاهان اهمیت فراوانی در توسعه جوامع مختلف داشته اند. در همین راستا استفاده از بعضی گیاهان دارویی به صورت سنتی مرسوم بوده و هنوز هم رواج دارد به همین دلیل همیشه تحقیقات وسیعی جهت یافتن فراورده ها و مواد طبیعی دارویی گیاهان در حال انجام می باشد. امروزه اهمیت گیاهان دارویی و شناساندن نقش حیاتی آن ها در پیشبرد اهداف ملی، منطقه ای و جهانی...
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Context and purpose: Rural production cooperatives play an important role in sustainable rural development and are one of the advanced stages of cooperation. Rural production cooperatives play a very important role in reducing rural poverty by increasing production efficiency and can provide services that governments are unable to provide for poor...
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Ostrya carpinifolia Scop. (European Hop Hornbeam) is a native tree in Europe as a species of the Betulaceae family. European Hop Hornbeam has a significant value for the European flora, and assessing the effects of climate change on habitats of species is essential for its sustainability. With this point of view, the main aim of the research was to...
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Livability is a general concept that is related to a number of other concepts and terms such as sustainability, quality of life, quality of place, and healthy communities. Rural livability in its main and general sense is defined as the concept of achieving livability and as solid physical characteristics, how to design, develop and maintain it. Th...
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Given the role of the agricultural sector in consuming critical resources like water and energy, a balance should be achieved between the harvest and exploitation of these resources and the amount of agricultural produce by their proper management. Security measurement indicators are a criterion for managerial evaluating of farmers regarding water,...
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused an emergency around the world, especially in rural communities, and imposed great disasters on human societies, so it's devastating effects on mental health indicators, economy, environment, and social relations are known to everyone. But the accurate assessment of its damage to human societies can help to manage this p...
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The increasing pressures of global warming, population growth and increasing demand create challenges in meeting the ever-increasing needs of water, energy and food. In the meantime, providing sufficient and quality food is one of the requirements of every society and the basis of development for it, and the main responsibility for this is the resp...
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Community-based cultural tourism is known as one of the solutions for sustainable rural development due to improving the living conditions of villagers, protecting natural and environmental resources, and empowering local communities. Women make up half of the population of villages and due to the services they provide and the goods they produce, t...
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توسعه گردشگری عشایری با تاکید بر حفظ شیوه های زندگی متفاوت با آنچه هر روز با آن سر و کار داریم و با محوریت ت گردشگری از مناطق عشایری، دقیقا آن مسئلهای است که در هیاهوی تالش برای ی کسان شدن باید مورد توجه قرار گیرد، این مهم از نگاهی شاید کاری سخت و پ یچ یده به نظر بیاید و از نگاهی میتواند امیدوار کننده باشد که گردشگری عشایری به نوعی بازگشت به سادگی...
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The goal of publishing scientific Journals in various sciences and disciplines is to collect topics that will improve the level of the knowledge and expand new domains and perspectives. A scientific journal can flourish the unsaid specialized issues and reveal the deficiencies. The purpose of the study is to content analysis of articles in Iranian...
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Considering the increasing importance of sustainable operations in the agricultural sector and the relationship between producers and consumers, the current study was to determine customers’ attitudes on participation in community-supported aquaculture programs in Kurdistan province (in the west of Iran). The present study was a survey, non-experim...
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Aim To ascertain that benefiting from a balanced and qualified diet is very important for ensuring human health and achieving the goals of the food security program, the present study was conducted by Tarbiat Modares University (Tehran, Iran) to investigate the food security situation of households in Alborz Province. Subject and methods The descr...
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Genetic modification (GM) has been used as a method to produce higher yields for consumption. However, the impact of genetic modification technology on agriculture in developing countries at the farm level often remains unclear. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the environmental, social and economic consequences of genetically modified (GM...
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The approach of water, food and energy nexus is a comprehensive view of sustainability; and agriculture plays a key role in the use of these resources and food security. Considering that the identification of the indicators of the water, food and energy security nexus in the agricultural sector is the main criterion for checking the status of the d...
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Human health has always been one of the goals of governments and nations, and this health depends on healthy and proper nutrition so that both human beings approach their goals and have the ability to preserve the environment for the future. Therefore, food safety has been a concern of all governments for years. Food safety means ensuring that the...
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This research has been an attempt to study the Quality of Life (QoL) in rural regions of Tehran, which is one of the metropolises of Iran. This survey study applied a non-experimental method in rural regions of Tehran, i.e., the causal-correlational approach, which has studied the status of QoL and its relationship with general health and life sati...
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This research is an attempt to identify the most important dimensions of vocational education and training (VET) on empowering rural women, a topic that has received less attention. The present study is a quantitative, non-experimental, applied, survey research, whose statistical population includes rural women and girls who participated in VET cla...
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Rural production cooperatives play a very important role in reducing rural poverty by increasing production efficiency and can provide services that governments are unable to provide for poor people. Reviewing and analyzing the performance of rural production cooperatives in order to provide executive solutions in accordance with development polici...
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For sustainable rural development, rural production cooperatives play an important role and are one of the advanced stages of cooperation. The present study was conducted to investigate the role of rural production cooperatives in improving the economic situation of rural households in Miandoab city. The statistical population of the present study...
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بخش کشاورزی در پایان دادن به فقر و تقویت رفاه جوامع روستایی نقش اساسی دارد. سه چهارم فقرای جهان در نواحی روستایی زندگی می¬کنند و بیشتر آنها از طریق کشاورزی امرار معاش می¬کنند. بنابراین افزایش بهره¬وری کشاورزی برای دستیابی به کاهش فقر ضروری است. رشد بهره¬وری در کشاورزی نیز نیروی¬محرکه تحول ساختاری است.
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فرصت‌های رشد جهانی اقتصاد زیستی با نیاز به گسترش عرضه غذا برای جمعیت روبه افزایش جهان، بدون به خطر انداختن محیط‌زیست ایجاد می‌شود. کشاورزی ارگانیک ادعا می¬کند که نسبت به کشاورزی معمولی سازگارتر با محیط زیست است و می-تواند با استفاده از فناوری¬های سبز به اهداف توسعه پایدار رسیدگی کند که در نتیجه منافع اقتصادی، اجتماعی و زیست محیطی به همراه دارد. مطا...
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Agricultural tourism is one of the strategies that has been proposed in recent decades to diversify the rural economy and sustainable rural development. Most countries of the world have considered this type of tourism as a new solution for socio-economic development, revitalization and reconstruction of rural areas. Organic tourism as a new industr...
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Despite all the advances in chemical medicine and biotechnology, plants are still an essential resource for medicinal preparations, both preventive and curative. Hundreds of plant species are known for their medicinal value, and many of them are commonly used to treat and prevent certain diseases and ailments. In addition, due to the very high valu...
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The market of medicinal plants has been existed for a long time in the history of the world and its sale and use in traditional medicine is still common. Iran is also very rich and diverse in terms of storing medicinal plants. This diversity has led to the spread of traditional Iranian medicine in this country for a long time and according to the g...