2025/07/17 by Ghasemipour, Ali, Ommani, Ahmadreza, Noorollah Noorivandi, Azadeh
#Dezful Township #Rural Development #Sustainable Livelihood Extension
paper · doi:10.57647/j.amc.2025.090115
The purpose of this research was designing sustainable livelihood extension model (SLEM) in rural areas of Dezful Township, Iran. This research is a quantitative research. The statistical population of the research included all heads of households in the rural areas of Dezful Township (N=16693). The number of statistical sample was calculated through Cochran's formula (n=370). The sampling method was multi-stage random cluster method. Smart PLS3 software was used to design the Structural Equation Model (SEM). The findings of the research show that professional qualification of extension staff, educational facilities and desirable content of educational courses, institutionalization of entrepreneurship and innovation in agriculture, development of risk management and empowering users as a causal condition, institutional infrastructure, social platforms, communication and public participation and economic platforms as contextual conditions and motivators and incentives, knowledge management and learning and policy making and law enforcement as intervening factors, had a positive and significant effect on the axial phenomenon of SLEM. Finally, the identified strategies of SLEM had a positive and significant effect on the consequences of implementing the model. The consequences of implementing the model in order of priority were economic consequences, individual consequences, social consequences and management consequences that had a positive and significant effect on SLEM.