LOCAL AGRICULTURAL MARKETS FOR SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN IRAN
Journal Title: Black Sea Journal of Public and Social Science - Year 2019, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Nowadays observe transition to local - based food production, distribution and marketing in order to ensure a more sustainable, healthy future of both the planet and humankind. Markets play an important role in rural development, income generation, food security, strengthening rural - market linkages and gender issues. Local markets have been available in some regions specially in northern regions of Iran and besides Caspian sea from centuries ago, that farmers supply their products directly to the local people. locations of doing this research are Rasht and Birjand cities in north and south east of Iran during 2015 - 2018. After a wide literature review, for gathering information utilized questionnaire as main instrument, plus of it used observations, pictures, documents, discussions and interviewing. Finally its showed that it must pay more attention by government and policy makers to real needs and tastes of majority of people during determining places and establishing these markets; providing mechanisms for more job - creating for unemployed youth in them; providing opportunities for women until they can work and compete with men in an equitable and justify conditions; providing insurance mechanisms for persons who work in them; providing monitoring and controlling mechanisms for persons who work; providing circumstances and conditions for confining people to the resources and capacities available at the specific time and place at a reasonable rate and price by these markets; enforcing inside the local markets, both hygiene rules and revenue collection activities; providing circumstances and conditions for a supportive policy, legal, institutional, macro - economic, favorable infrastructural and bureaucratic environment for success of these local markets, etc. In the whole, this study showed high potentials of local markets in order to obtaining sustainable rural development and improving human capabilities of local communities in Iran.
Authors and Affiliations
Farhood GOLMOHAMMADI
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP622808
- DOI -
- Views 67
- Downloads 0
SheepNet: Management of Ewes to Increase the Survival of Lambs
Since 75% of lamb deaths occur in the first week after the birth of lambs, it is essential to manage lambing sheep to reduce lamb mortality. Early colostrum intake and sheep lamb tie are important issues. Avoiding stress...
Challenges of Conducting Social Research in Metropolitan Cities after Law no. 6360
This study examines the impact of Law No. 6360, which was commonly known as “Law of Metropoles”, on performing social studies. To that end, history of laws made to regulate the metropoles has been studied and the changes...
Social inclusion of Immigrant students through Art
According to the data of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 12 million people have displaced after the Syrian civil war began in 2012. Over 3 million of these people migrated to Turkey with Turkey's "open-doo...
An Interview with the Spanish Translator Olcay Öztunalı
In this interview, translator and academician Asst. Prof. Olcay Öztunalı’s opinions on translation process is given in the light of translator decisions, the role of translation and translators, actors in the translation...
A VIEWPOINT TOWARD EMPOWERING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF RURAL WOMEN IN IRAN: SITUATIONS AND PROBLEMS
Two main goals of sustainable development are increasing capabilities of human race and expansion of people choices in their lives. Despite the increasing awareness of the great potentials of women in development, women...