Agricultural Planning, Economic and Rural Development Research Institute (APERDRI)

Address

No.5, Roudsar St., South Shahid Azodi(Aban Jonoubi) Ave., Karimkhan-e-Zand Blvd

Country

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Web site

http://www.agri-peri.ir & www.agri-peri.ac.ir

[email protected]

Phone number(s)

Tel: +98-21-42916000

Areas of expertise

农业, 农业经济, 农业财政, 农业贸易和市场, 消费者保护, 体面农村就业, 发展经济学, 农场管理/农作系统, 农村发展和土地改革, 城市农业, 农业支持体系, 粮食损失和粮食浪费, 食品安全/食品质量和标准, 粮食安全政策/粮食援助, 渔业政策, 林业经济, 森林政策, 自然资源管理, 土地资源和管理, 水资源和管理, 性别问题, 青年就业, 紧急行动及恢复, 地域信息系统, 家庭农业, 社会保护/安全网

Mandate, main activities of the institution and competencies

- Mission Statement

APERDRI is an institution with fifty years of research and planning experience, which generates thought, knowledge and plans toward sustainable development of agriculture and natural resources. In this area, APERDRI possesses a unique status in the Ministry of Agriculture - Jahad.

- Main Activities:

APERDRI conducts applied development studies to understand the existing situation, identify the challenges ahead, and predict the future economic and social changes at the national and global levels. APERI formulates strategies, plans and policy recommendations to institutions with decision making and executive mandates.

- Competencies:

Our Values: APERDRI owes its growth and development to its human resources, who are characterized by expertise, creativity, critical spirit, and profound analytical mind. As such, continuous improvement of knowledge, skills and incentives of our colleagues is a prevailing institutional policy at Provision of expertise to other countries or institutions

Summary of the activities during the last two years

- Compiling, planning and approving the decisions and policies in agriculture sector and natural resources in long, medium and short terms in both national and regional levels are on the head of this institute. This has accounted for the richest and deepest researches fulfilled by this institute in Iranian agriculture sector.

- The second area of activities the institute is engaged in is doing researches in the field of Agricultural Planning, Economics and Rural Development in macro levels aiming at an autopsy of economic phenomena in the sector; i.e., fulfilling researches that enjoy their own complexities and make it possible to manage the strategies to optimize and make the best of the resources and production factors

- Collaboration with FAO and other institutions and organizations: Sustainable Development Strategy Framework Focal Point/ Country Programming Framework (CPF)/Iran GIAHS Secretariat/CFS Focal Point/FFKP Focal Point/ECO Focal Point/CIRDAP Focal Point/IDB Focal Point

Legal status and Government arrangements of the institutions

Name and details of the head of the institution

- Name: Dr. Seyyed Hassan Kazemi

- Position: Director General

- Tel: +98(21)88892408-10

- E-mail: [email protected]

Focal points

- Name: Dr. Ali KianiRad

- Position: Assistant Professor (Agricultural Economics), Research Deputy

- Tel: +98-21-88803676

- E-mail: [email protected] Official E-mail: [email protected]