Drought vulnerability assessment: Solution for risk alleviation and drought management among Iranian farmers

Savari, Moslem; Damaneh, Hamed Eskandari; Damaneh, Hadi Eskandari

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102654

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“…Psychosocial theories and models can be used to understand water-saving behavior. These models are used to understand the variables that predict behavior so that they can be recognized and modified appropriately 6 , 40 , 41 .…”

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Socio-psychological determinants of Iranian rural households' adoption of water consumption curtailment behaviors

Savari¹,

Mombeni²,

Izadi³

2022

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Dealing with a growing population and a shortage of drinking water is a major challenge for politicians and planners. A key factor in ensuring a sustainable water supply is water conservation at the household level, which can increase productivity and save water resources. Therefore, promoting water consumption curtailment behavior will contribute significantly to reducing the global water crisis, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Water consumption curtailment behaviors depend on individuals’ encouragement to choose and adopt voluntary behaviors and cannot be enforced by any political or planning power. In order to encourage water conservation those social and psychological factors should be considered that influence individuals to participate or adopt water consumption curtailment behaviors. Therefore, the study of factors influencing rural households' water consumption curtailment behaviors is of great importance. This study aimed to describe the socio-psychological factors influencing water consumption curtailment behaviors among rural households in southwestern Iran. The extended theory of planned behavior (ETPB) was used as a theoretical framework in this study along with descriptive norms (DN), moral norms (MN), habits, and justification. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results showed that ETPB can explain 35% and 54% of intention and water consumption curtailment behaviors among rural households in Iran. Our findings may assist policymakers in reducing domestic water consumption.

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Socio-psychological determinants of Iranian rural households' adoption of water consumption curtailment behaviors

Savari¹,

Mombeni²,

Izadi³

2022

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“…Among environmental stresses, drought is the leading stress that affects plant productivity. The agricultural industry frequently faces environmental threats because of the sessile nature of plants [65,66]. Unfortunately, 35-40% of our land is semi-arid, whereby maize crops are constantly challenged with drought stress, which affects plant growth and development at every stage, from germination to maturity, thereby causing severe crop-yield losses [67,68].…”

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Biopriming of Maize Seeds with a Novel Bacterial Strain SH-6 to Enhance Drought Tolerance in South Korea

Shaffique

Khan

Wani

et al. 2022

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Maize is the third most common cereal crop worldwide, after rice and wheat, and plays a vital role in preventing global hunger crises. Approximately 50% of global crop yields are reduced by drought stress. Bacteria as biostimulants for biopriming can improve yield and enhance sustainable food production. Further, seed biopriming stimulates plant defense mechanisms. In this study, we isolated bacteria from the rhizosphere of Artemisia plants from Pohang beach, Daegu, South Korea. Twenty-three isolates were isolated and screened for growth promoting potential. Among them, bacterial isolate SH-6 was selected based on maximum induced tolerance to polyethylene glycol-simulated drought. SH-6 showed ABA concentration = 1.06 ± 0.04 ng/mL, phosphate solubilizing index = 3.7, and sucrose concentration = 0.51 ± 0.13 mg/mL. The novel isolate SH-6 markedly enhanced maize seedling tolerance to oxidative stress owing to the presence of superoxide dismutase, catalase, and ascorbate peroxidase activities in the culture media. Additionally, we quantified and standardized the biopriming effect of SH-6 on maize seeds. SH-6 significantly increased maize seedling drought tolerance by up to 20%, resulting in 80% germination potential. We concluded that the novel bacterium isolate SH-6 (gene accession number (OM757882) is a biostimulant that can improve germination performance under drought stress.

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“…In fact, vulnerability indicates the system's failure to deal with a real shock (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) ( 23 ). Vulnerability is a function of three elements: sensitivity to stimuli, exposure to changes, and adaptive capacity ( 20 ). Sensitivity is the degree that a system is subject to or affected by stimuli ( 24 ).…”

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“…It should be noted that due to COVID-19 pandemic problems for farmers, the negative impact on the rural economy, and negative mental and psychological impacts, the motivation of farmers for work and daily activities was reduced and as a result, production and field management had problems. What can increase the level of vulnerability of rural and agricultural households to shocks is the lack of information about their vulnerability ( 20 ). In order to clarify the issue of vulnerability and explain its economic, social, psychological, and environmental dimensions have been discussed.…”

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Vulnerability assessment of Iran's rural-farmer households during COVID-19 pandemic

Amghani

Savari²,

Choobchian

2022

Front. Public Health

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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 phenomenon during and post-COVID-19 pandemic. To that end, the present study was conducted for vulnerability assessment of wheat farmers to the COVID-19 pandemic in northwest Iran. The main data collection tool in this study was a questionnaire that was designed based on the Me-bar model, but for the accurate vulnerability assessment, new parameters were added based on the theoretical research literature and the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample size was selected from 420 wheat farmers living in East Azerbaijan Province, the northwest of Iran, using the Kerjcie and Morgan's table. The results showed that for economic vulnerability, the rural poverty was the most important cause of vulnerability of the studied rural households and access to information was most important cause of social vulnerability. Also, the results showed that for psychological vulnerability, the self-efficacy was the most important cause of vulnerability. In other results, irrigation parameters of agricultural lands were the most important cause of environmental vulnerability. The study results showed that the studied farmers have experienced high levels of vulnerability and were strongly affected by economic, social, psychological, and environmental damages. Moreover, the results showed that the farmers of Shabestar and Maragheh had the highest level of vulnerability. In general, the study results can provide policymakers with new insights into the field of COVID-19 pandemic management because the vulnerability of farmers has been identified using 39 parameters.

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Drought vulnerability assessment: Solution for risk alleviation and drought management among Iranian farmers

Cited by 68 publications

References 106 publications

Socio-psychological determinants of Iranian rural households' adoption of water consumption curtailment behaviors

Socio-psychological determinants of Iranian rural households' adoption of water consumption curtailment behaviors

Biopriming of Maize Seeds with a Novel Bacterial Strain SH-6 to Enhance Drought Tolerance in South Korea

Vulnerability assessment of Iran's rural-farmer households during COVID-19 pandemic

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