جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "red meat" در نشریات گروه "اقتصاد کشاورزی"

Red meat supply chains are of special importance because they are one of the most important consumable materials in the basket households. This chain can be examined from various aspects; one of the most important of which is the red meat production ring. The main purpose of this study was to analyze the position of traditional livestock keepers in the red meat supply chain (Case study: the southwestern skirt of Zagros). In order to achieve the overall goal of the study, a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods were used. In the quantitative phase of the research, using proportional sampling method (multi-stage classes), information was collected from traditional sheep and goat livestock keepers. In the quality phase, using Delphi and SWOT methods, deep and extensive quality information was extracted from red meat supply chain specialists (including livestock experts of Jihad Keshavarzi). The results of the study showed that traditional livestock keepers are in a very critical economic (27.8 out of 100) and social (35.5 out of 100) situation. Finally, among the strategies developed, the highest attractiveness was related to "knowledge-based development and injection of information and technology to increase the quality and productivity of red meat production through useing scientific and modern methods" and the lowest attractiveness was related to "reducing the risk of red meat production through expanding livestock keepers and livestock insurance with appropriate and reasonable support conditions."

Red meat plays an important role in providing animal protein of Iranian households. However, its supply has experienced some challenges stemming from exchange rate fluctuations, smuggling livestock to the neighboring countries, and importing frozen meat financed by subsidized currency. In addition, there has been significant emphasis on self-sufficiency and providing the red meat domestically. On the other hand, based on Falcon Mark index, Iran has encountered water tension, the situation that may be getting worse as self-sufficiency is more focused. Regarding the problem, this study aimed at investigating different scenarios of domestically-produced and import of red meat with due consideration of simultaneously minimizing the costs of red meat and water use. For this purpose, multiobjective programing was applied using data for 2000-2018 in which minimization of spending for domestic consumption and water footprint embodied in domestic production was included. The selected scenarios were different combinations of the weights for minimization objectives. The results showed that depending on the weights assigned to the objectives, providing 30-40 percent of domestic need from domestically produced red meat was recommended while the remaining need might be provided via imports. The findings revealed that recommended combination for domestically-produced and imported red meat could reduce the spending on domestic need and water footprint significantly, resulting in 63 percent and 42 percent reduction in water use and cost spending, respectively; in addition, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced. These results are the result of importing sheep meat from Australia or cattle meat with bones from Brazil. In spite of a significant reduction in the objectives’ values, the selected countries for import revealed a low diversity.

In this study، change in the Iranian households’ preferences for red vs. poultry meat is investigated over the period of 1974-2006. To this end، a linear programming model is developed as based on Sakong and Hayes (1992) proposed methodology، while changes in preferences being estimated by in terms of variances in the estimated quantities of per capita consumption of these two commodities during the study period. Results indicate that per capita consumption of these commodities has varied for some of the years in the study period that cannot be explained by change in relative prices. However، given that the variances are not steady، one cannot conclude a permanent change in the Iranian households’ preference for either of these two food products. Based on the obtained to be all results، change in preferences has been positive for poultry meat while (for red meat) being positive (for some years) and negative for (some other years) throughout the whole study period. The accumulated sums of the quantity changes are 3. 3 and 5. 3 kilograms، respectively، for red vs. poultry meat.