Challenges Threatening Agricultural Sustainability in the West of Iran: Viewpoint of Agricultural Experts

Sustainability has always been an emphasized topic in policy making and planning the agricultural sector of developing countries. Despite this fact, sustainable agriculture not realized so far because various complex challenges these The lack a structured scientific research on prompted us to conduct study fill gap create useful knowledge issue. In regard, 300 Iranian experts, selected through stratified random sampling technique, were interviewed explore prioritize threatening sustainability west Iran. Findings indicated water scarcity low productivity beside environmental climate disasters most important from viewpoint participants. Moreover, insufficient investment management weakness at macro micro levels other significant perspective experts. Results exploratory factor analysis that can be divided into nine categories including liquidity; disasters; weakness; labor force sector; problems; information systems; attention quality; related inputs; global challenges. This 9-factor structure, which confirmed confirmatory analysis, was able explain 67.52% variance