Determining Key Agricultural Strategic Factors Using AHP-MICMAC

Akbar Barati, Ali; Azadi, Hossein; Dehghani Pour, Milad; Lebailly, Philippe; Qafori, Mostafa

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Determining Key Agricultural Strategic Factors Using AHP-MICMAC

Akbar Barati, Ali; Azadi, Hossein; Dehghani Pour, Milad et al.

2019 • In Sustainability, 11 (3947)

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Agricultural policy; Agriculture management; Policy-making for food; Decision making for agriculture; Iran

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[en] Agriculture is an irrefutable part of food policy. This paper aims to introduce an integrated method using MICMAC and AHP techniques to deal with understanding the key strategic variables of agricultural system. MICMAC was used to determine the classifications of variables and AHP was applied to weigh these classifications. MICMAC is a structural analysis tool used to structure ideas and AHP is an effective tool to deal with complex decision making and helps decision-makers making the best decision. The results show that strategic variables had different types of influence and direct, indirect, and potential dependencies did not have the same importance. AHP-MICMAC not only considers these differences, but also puts a total priority weight for each variable. These characteristics have an important role in forming strategies and scenarios for agricultural development. Therefore, the case of Iran was used to illustrate the application of MICMAC aiming to supply instructions for the development of agriculture system.

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Agriculture & agronomy

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Akbar Barati, Ali

Azadi, Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Modélisation et développement

Dehghani Pour, Milad

Lebailly, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Modélisation et développement

Qafori, Mostafa

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English

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Determining Key Agricultural Strategic Factors Using AHP-MICMAC

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2019

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Sustainability

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2071-1050

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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland

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3947

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