First name   :  Arman

Present residence: Shiraz City, Fars Province, Iran

Telephone:  +98-9171887129

Mailing address:  P.O. Box    71555-617  Shiraz, Iran

E-mail: armanbakhshi@yahoo.com    &     armanbakhshi@gmail.com

Place of birth: Jahrom, Fars province, Iran

Date of birth:  23.4.1971

Nationality: Iranian

Sex: Male

Marital status: Married

Mother tongue: Persian

English skill:  Good (Read, Write, Speak), I wrote my M.Sc. thesis in English

 

Education:

-Ph.D. : Agricultural Extension and Education, 2015, Shiraz University, Iran. (Second Top student, GAP: 18.01 out of 20). Dissertation Title:Legal Challenges of Agricultural Water and Analysis of the Users’ Behavior(The case of underground water in Jahrom)

- M.Sc. : Agricultural Extension and Education, 1997, Shiraz University, Iran. (Top student, GAP: 17.18 out of 20);   Thesis Title (Was written in English):   The comparison of high and low performance wheat growers with respect to their attributional style

- B.S in Agricultural Extension and Education, 1994, Shiraz University, Iran. (Top student, GAP: 17.9 out of 20); 

Computer skills:  Good

The computer packages that I normally use:

SPSS, Office (word, power point, excel), Internet Explorer, Windows and interested in GIS

        

Job position:

Researcher of Socio-Economic and Agricultural Extension Research Department (Member of Scientific Board), Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Shiraz, Iran.

 

Interest and Professional fields of expertise:

- Rural development and Participatory approaches

- Agricultural education and extension

- Farming system 

- Qualitative approaches and methods    

-  Sustainable agriculture

- Indigenous knowledge of local communities

       

Summary of qualifications:

1.About 7 years of experience as expert, head of agricultural extension office and extension studies office in Kerman province, Iran (1998-2004). Main activities during this period:

-Planning, Coordinating and designing for agricultural extension activities

-Executing and implementing rural-based training courses for farmers and experts

-Applying of participatory approaches for evaluation, research and designing rural development projects

-Planning and coordinating for agricultural knowledge system (AKS)

-Teaching in university

-Transfer of research findings to farmers and rural people

-Research and study about extension system and development methods in rural areas.

-Evaluating rural-based development projects

-Evaluating different agricultural extension programmes in some provinces of Iran

- Consulting to NGO’s

-Planning and programming for improving efficiency and productivity of farmers

- Delivering innovation to rural people and transfer of technology

-Working as a change agent in rural area

   

  2.Over 12 years of experience as researcher of Socio-economic and Rural Development department (2004-2014) in Kerman Province, Iran and researcher of Socio-economic and Agricultural Extension Research Department (2015- continued) in Fars Province, Iran. Main activities during this period:

-Research and programming in fields of rural development, nomads’ and agricultural extension for local community

-Participation in local development projects as a facilitator

-Teaching in university

-Consulting to agricultural experts for development-oriented projects

-Coordinating and consulting in rural development projects

 

 

3.Member of Iranian agricultural extension and education association since 1994

 

4.Member of Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) since July, 2005.

 

5.Publications: (For more details please see parts 20.10, 20.11 and 20.12)

                 - Publishing more than 16 scientific and applied papers

                 - Presenting 11 research papers in domestic seminars

                 - Presenting 7 research papers in international seminars

                 - Translating 5 articles and booklets

                 - Publishing two booklet

 

 

 

6.Executing and accompanying of 12 research projects and socio-economics field studies.

               The Main ones:

a- The study and determination of effective factors on adoption of private extension services by pistachio producers in Kerman province, Iran

b-Social rural studies for watershed projects in four main basins (in Jirft, Bam and Bardsir, Iran)

c-The study of socio-economics and cultural consequent resulting from nomads’ sedentarisation

d-The study on comprehensive development of nomads

e-The study of effective socio-economics factors on adoption of olive (as an innovation)  in rural communities

f- Evaluation of improving milk quality projects in rural communities

g-The follow up survey on occupation and social status of technical agricultural graduates of Jihad-e –Agriculture scientific-applied higher education institute

h- The study on finding proper approaches for increasing rural and  nomads economics opportunities by their indigenous potential ( in Jiroft & Kahnooj)

 

7.Teaching in the universities and academic centers since 1998 the following courses:

a- Concept of rural development

b- Principle of agricultural extension and education

c- Management in rural community and extension projects

d- An introduction to participation approaches and participatory rural appraisal (PRA)

e- Training technologies and communication skills for rural development and agricultural extension programmes

f- Sustainable rural development

g- Rural economics and rural productivity

h- English (ESP) for the students of Agriculture

 

 

 

 

8.Reviewing more than 40 scientific papers for domestic and international conferences, and also reviewing 60 extension publications and studies reports

 

9.The Main Seminars/Training workshops that I have attended:

            -The first congress on Iranian Agricultural Extension

            - International conference on WTO and its impact on development countries

             -International Seminar on Community-based Rural Tourism (Malaysia)

            - International Congress on procreation of knowledge

            -The 5th International conference of ASAE

            -The second national conference on watershed

            -The 22nd international conference of AIAEE (I had three       accepted scientific papers, but I couldn’t attend)

             - The workshop on PRA

             - The workshop on Role of NGO’s in comprehensive community development 

             - The workshop on Delivery & Funding Extension /Advisory services in Iran  

 

10.The Main presented/published papers:

      

In English:

a-         The comparison of high and low performance wheat growers with respect to their Locus of Control

b-         Facilitation Approaches for Rural Development in Iran

c-         Rural Tourism in Iran

d-         WTO , globalization and agricultural education

e-         Procreation and extension of knowledge in agricultural science

f-          The predictor parameters for farmers’ attribution style

g-         Application of attribution theory in agricultural extension

h-         Comparison of high and low performance wheat growers with respects to their locus of control.

i-          Analysis of Production economic and technical efficiency of  lemon  producers (The case study of  Hormozgan province , Iran)

j-          Application of attribution theory  in agricultural extension and education: A new applied viewpoint

k-         The predictor parameters for farmers’ attributional style

l-          A survey on situation of agricultural graduates in the last ten years (case of Iran): Need to amendment in agricultural higher education policy

m-        Attributions for farm performance amongst farmers in Iran

n-         The analysis of nomad’s production economics and their income (Case of Darzeh, Kahnooj, Kerman province, Iran)

 

 

In Persian:

 

o-         A deliberation on interactive effects of rural development and watershed projects

p-         Participatory rural appraisal (PRA): A complementary approach for quantitative research method in socio-economics studies of watershed projects for community development

q-         Rural women and limitation for their participation in development projects

r-          Agricultural planning and people’s participation

s-         Privatization in rural projects: attitudes and concepts

t-          An introduction to concept of rural development

u-         The consequence of nomads’ sedentarisation in rural development

v-           Improvement of milk quality : the impact of education

w-        The comparison of male and female students of agriculture with respect to their academic motivation

x-         The Analysis of socio-economics aspects of Neyestan basin (Case of Bam, Iran)

y-         The application of Attribution Theory for recognizing low and high wheat growers.

z-         Time management and its application in Agricultural Education

aa-       Privatization in Agricultural Extension programmes: attitudes and sights

bb-       Creative training in Agricultural Education

cc-          The statistical analysis  of demography and occupational status of members of Kerman Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering Council Organization (KANRECO)

dd-       Motivation of Agricultural students of scientific- applied university (The case of Kerman)

ee-       Rural tourism and its application in Rural development

ff-         An introduction on Eco-Tourism and It's attractions in Iran

gg-       Agricultural research, education and extension: Review of past and a glance to future

 

 

11.Translating to Persian:

- Agricultural education for sustainable rural development: challenges for developing countries in the 21st century

 - And also, some translations about rural development, agricultural education, agricultural policy, Fruit and wheat.

 

12.Publishing Booklet: 

- Problem solving methods: An effective approach in agricultural extension and education (In print, in Persian).

- The guide for preparing effective writing and paper in agricultural extension (in Persian).

 

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