“…The SD method is based on cybernetics, system theory and information theory, which its main characteristic is its ability to reflect the interactions between structures and behaviors of complex dynamic systems, real dynamic simulation, and estimating the behaviors of the system under different scenarios (Sterman, 2000). A great deal of research work has shown that the SD method can be used in many areas, including agricultural systems (Saysel et al, 2002;Teimoury et al, 2013), environmental management (Turner et al, 2013;Mashayekhi, 1990), ecological modeling (Kopainsky, 2015;Wu et al, 1993), water resource planning (Aivazidou et al, 2015;Niazi et al, 2014), and can be regarded as a useful tool for scenario analysis in the land use researches (He et al, 2005;Rasmussen et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2013). Despite numerous studies in recent years in the field of agricultural land use change modeling using system dynamics technique (Shi and Gill, 2005;Luo et al, 2010;Rozman et al, 2013), but there is still research gaps on SD models using macro socio-economic driving factors in an open economy and at national level to predict the future agricultural land use change and assess the effects of improvement policies.…”