Journal of
Development and Agricultural Economics

  • Abbreviation: J. Dev. Agric. Econ.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2006-9774
  • DOI: 10.5897/JDAE
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 547

Article in Press

MODELING SUSTAINABLE WELLBEING AS HEALTH AND NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL FOOD: A CONCEPT PAPER ON A RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Azhar Abbas, Sultan Ali Adil, Asghar Ali and Masudul Alam Choudhury

This is a concept paper of a research program now in its inception at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-Pakistan. The principal objective of the paper is to project the concept and measurement of wellbeing derived from health and nutrition value by the methodology of pervasive complementarities between the selected variables of the wellbeing function. The research is firstly a pilot project focused on the local agricultural economy of Faisalabad. But its methodological and empirical implications of the underlying formalism and its model are wide. The pilot project is thereby intended to lead into nation-wide agricultural planning and thereafter into ummah wide contribution on the issue of wellbeing of health and nutritional value of agricultural food. The three components of the research problem are thus integrated. Firstly, the formal methodological study of sustainability by means of the wellbeing criterion as conceptualization and empirical measurement of health and nutritional value of agricultural food is established in its generalized methodological worldview of Tawhid as the cardinal episteme of unity of knowledge. Secondly, the empirical results are combined with the endogenous nature of knowledge dissemination for public awareness of the wellbeing implications of health and nutritional value of agricultural food. Thirdly, the comprehensive conception-empirical results of the Tawhidi phenomenological model of wellbeing as health and nutritional value of agricultural food are carried through possible policies and strategic recommendations.

Keywords: Formalism; Production; Circular causation; Inter-causal; Food security