identification, prioritization and comparison educational barriers and effective sustainable development on production of edible insects as diets by ahp method from the viewpoint of selected groups

the purpose of this study was identification and applying ahp method in prioritization and comparison educational barriers and sustainable development on production of edible insects as diets from the viewpoint of selected groups. it was an applied research, research method was analytical, descriptive and statistical society was four groups of specialists, livestock and poultry producers, insect's producers and consumers of alborz and tehran provinces. identify barriers did by library studies, search in academic sites and interview with related experts. these barriers prioritized in 2 main criterion and 19 sub-criteria after confirmed professors hierarchical tree was designed by ahp method and gave to 20 people of each group experts and the weight of each of sub-indices calculated and prioritized by expert choice 11 software the inconsistency ratio less than 0.1 and verified compatibility, results showed that: review of experts and consumers. lock of promote the culture of goods forage insects and their products (0.171, 0.159), in terms of livestock and poultry producers, lake of educational programs with related topics in the school (0.163). the most important of educational barriers of production of edible insect was lake of direct instruction (face to face in terms of manufactures insects in relation to production and consumption of edible insects (0.212). the obstacles sustainable development, non-performance management system of production of edible insects in terms of popularity (0.189, 0.295, and 0.199) from point of view of specialists, insects producers and consumers and from point of view of livestock and poultry producers, most important barrier in production of edible insects was uncertainty about sustainability of occupational health and social health