Evaluation the sustainability of agricultural activity in Iran: with emphasize on ecological footprint and actual land demand approach

Subject Areas : soil pollution

Adeleh Esmaeeli Dastjerdi poor ¹ , Hossein mehrabiboshabadi ²

1 - The M.Sc student of agricultural economics, Shahid Bahonar university of Kerman, Iran
2 - Associate professor of agricultural economics, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran.

Received: 2019-10-21 Accepted : 2019-10-21 Published : 2020-12-21

Keywords: Agricultural sector, Sustainable, Actual land demand, Ecological footprint, Import and export of land,

Abstract :

Population growth, changing pattern life, increasing migration to cities, low level of technology and limitation of convenience agricultural land and incorrect use of basic resources would intensify resources damage. While mention to natural resources and environment for keeping their production ability is so important. Desirable keeping of these resources is related to understanding the situation, path and scale of resources changing by measurements like ecological footprint indicator. Because of importance of sustainable issues in different  economical sectors special in agricultural sector because of using more environmental resources in this article ecological footprint indicator in agricultural sector is estimated by using actual land demand approach in Iran during 1376-86 then the results is used to evaluate the sustainable of agricultural activity in and out of country. The results indicated that agricultural activity in Iran is compatible with internal economy and is adverse with global economy. Also never less internal production is secured sustainability, actual land demand was increased specially in these years that mean sustainable situation was depressed in internal economy. So it suggested that must be used actions for adoption of sustainable method in agricultural sector in internal and review the trade pattern in global level.