Developing a Composite Indicator for Agricultural Sustainability Assessment in the Fes-Meknes Region, Morocco

IF 4 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of the Knowledge Economy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI:10.1007/s13132-023-01721-y

Nabil Benayad, Abdelilah Baguare, Mohammed Abdouh

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Regional agricultural sustainability assessment has increased in popularity in recent decades. As a result, stakeholders are more involved in monitoring public policies’ effectiveness in promoting agricultural sustainability. In Morocco, agriculture is a strategic sector for achieving sustainable development, but measuring its impact on population well-being, economic development, and preserving the environment remains the missing piece that policymakers need to support their decisions. This paper develops a composite indicator (CI) construction method to measure regional sustainability with an application to the agricultural sector in the Fes-Meknes region (FMR). We extended the construction procedure to build CIs in five Moroccan regions to create a comparative basis for inter-regional agricultural sustainability performance. The Fes-Meknes region index (FMRI) results from aggregating 24 indicators selected based on their measurability, data availability, and relevance, normalised with the Min–Max procedure, equally weighted and compiled into a single index with a hybrid aggregation method. Results show that the FMR is moderately sustainable with a score of (0.55) and an intra-regional discrepancy concerning the global and dimensional performance of agriculture. The study highlights a need for governance tools and a participatory approach to support decision-makers and enhance regional democracy.

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为摩洛哥菲斯-梅克内斯地区农业可持续性评估制定综合指标

近几十年来，区域农业可持续性评估越来越受欢迎。因此，利益相关者更多地参与监测公共政策在促进农业可持续性方面的成效。在摩洛哥，农业是实现可持续发展的战略部门，但衡量农业对人口福祉、经济发展和环境保护的影响仍然是决策者支持其决策所需的缺失部分。本文开发了一种综合指标（CI）构建方法，用于衡量地区可持续性，并将其应用于非斯-梅克内斯地区（FMR）的农业部门。我们扩展了构建程序，在摩洛哥的五个地区构建了 CI，为地区间农业可持续性绩效的比较奠定了基础。菲斯-梅克内斯地区指数（FMRI）是将根据可测量性、数据可用性和相关性选出的 24 项指标汇总后，采用最小-最大程序进行归一化处理，加权平均后，以混合汇总法编制成单一指数的结果。结果表明，斐济农业可持续发展指数为 0.55，属于中度可持续发展，但区域内部在农业的全球和各维度表现上存在差异。这项研究突出表明，需要采用治理工具和参与式方法来支持决策者和加强区域民主。

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Journal of the Knowledge Economy ECONOMICS-

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5.90

自引率

27.30%

发文量

228

期刊介绍： In the context of rapid globalization and technological capacity, the world’s economies today are driven increasingly by knowledge—the expertise, skills, experience, education, understanding, awareness, perception, and other qualities required to communicate, interpret, and analyze information. New wealth is created by the application of knowledge to improve productivity—and to create new products, services, systems, and process (i.e., to innovate). The Journal of the Knowledge Economy focuses on the dynamics of the knowledge-based economy, with an emphasis on the role of knowledge creation, diffusion, and application across three economic levels: (1) the systemic ''meta'' or ''macro''-level, (2) the organizational ''meso''-level, and (3) the individual ''micro''-level. The journal incorporates insights from the fields of economics, management, law, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and political science to shed new light on the evolving role of knowledge, with a particular emphasis on how innovation can be leveraged to provide solutions to complex problems and issues, including global crises in environmental sustainability, education, and economic development. Articles emphasize empirical studies, underscoring a comparative approach, and, to a lesser extent, case studies and theoretical articles. The journal balances practice/application and theory/concepts.