9 pages, via online journal article, Internet is a key for globalization and a tool for communication around the world. E-commerce has been introduced as a global phenomenon in the twenty-first century by internet development. The main goal of this research is to investigate the challenges and solutions of e-commerce in Iran’s agriculture. The paper is based on a descriptive-analytical type of field research, therefore a questionnaire was prepared as our data collection tool. The population of this research was a panel of agriculture faculty members in Iran. The overall results showed that the use of e-commerce in Iran’s agriculture has many obstacles ahead in infrastructural, cultural, social and educational fields. The research findings showed that e-commerce can provide many advantages like profitability, elimination of intermediaries, agricultural production market development, farmers' awareness of market prices, and access to national and international markets, increasing competition and improving the quality of agricultural products. According to the results it seems
that infrastructure development, culture and security and confidence production, and internet training to all classes of people are the most important strategies for e-business development in agriculture. Further research in this area and using other countries’ experiences are some other proposed solutions for e-commerce development in Iranian agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08809
Notes:
Pages 17-40 in Patrick D. Murphy, The media commons: globalization and environmental discourses. United States: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield. 192 pages.
Brady, Michael (author), Chouinard, Hayley (author), and Wandschneider, Philip (author)
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Paper
Publication Date:
2017-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09872
Notes:
Under author copyright., Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017. 17 pages.
Cooperative Communicators Association, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania., Emphasizes social and economic benefits for communities through support for cooperative grocers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 195 Document Number: D07928
Notes:
John L. Woods Collection., Ring binder contains presentation visuals for a proposal and a progress report from Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, D.C., for a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Pages not numbered.
