Essential multiple functions of farms in rural communities and landscapes

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecka Milestad ◽  
Johan Ahnström ◽  
Johanna Björklund
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Local Processing ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Action Groups

AbstractAs farms are consolidated into larger operations and small farms close down for economic reasons, rural areas lose ecological, social and economic functions related to farming. Biodiversity and scenic, open-vista landscapes are lost as fields are left unmanaged. Social and economic benefits such as local job opportunities and meeting places disappear. Four Swedish rural communities were examined to increase our understanding of the functions that a diverse agriculture provides and which of these are lost as farms cease operation and overall rural social capital is depleted. Workshops and interviews with village action groups and with farmers were carried out. Both groups identified key functions from farming that are important to the rural community, such as production of food and fiber, businesses and jobs, human services, local security, ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling and biodiversity, and functions pertaining to quality of life. Several ways in which village action groups can support agriculture were identified that current industrial agriculture and even agri-environmental schemes fail to achieve. These include organizing local meeting places, encouraging local processing and consumption and supporting farmers in their work. We conclude that agriculture and village action groups match well in community development and that policies supporting this match would be useful.

scholarly journals ECOLOGICAL SETTLEMENT AS A SELF-GOVERNMENT MODEL IN RURAL AREAS

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kemble Walker ◽  
Mariia Plotnikova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Community Management ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Improved Methods

There is a clear need in rural areas for improved methods of self-government. This study examines the most effective approaches to administration in rural communities. What are the most promising types of rural community management? We aim to assess trends in rural selfrehabilitation and development, including an international analysis of ecological and family homestead settlements as models of future society. These models represent an evolution of the traditional village capable of improving the population's quality of life. Family homestead settlements are the most common form of ecological settlement in Ukraine and foster family values, patriotism to the Homeland and effectively demonstrate successful self-government practices. Governance is achieved by way of the Veche, a collective authority, as well as through public organizations, public-private partnerships, regional and international cooperation.

scholarly journals THE INDICATORS OF SOCIOECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF RURAL COMMUNITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 253-261
Author(s):  
Nurul Suliana Yusoff ◽  
Muhamad Fadhli Rashid ◽  
Norhazliza Abd Halim
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
The Impact

The imbalance of wealth distribution, age structure, and quality of life between urban and rural areas all over the world are needed to be addressed in ensuring socio-economic well-being. Rural areas and its community cannot be disregarded as they should have special attention in achieving socioeconomic status and well-being. The impact of socioeconomic well-being is significant where both economic and social dimension is related to the sustainability of rural areas. Sustainable development is connected to human well-being and quality of life where there is a growing interest in socioeconomic well-being measures to move towards sustainability. Therefore, this paper aims to provide an overview in developing the selection of socioeconomic well-being indicators of rural communities. Besides that, this paper also provides an overview of studies on indicators of socioeconomic well-being according to two-dimension namely economy and social as a fundamental framework for the analysis of the socioeconomic well-being of the rural community.

scholarly journals KONSEP KAMPUNG PENDIDIKAN DAN PELATIHAN KERJA

Vitruvian ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
La Ode Abdul Rachmad Sabdin Andisiri ◽  
Ishak Kadir ◽  
Muhammad Zakaria Umar
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
The Village

Pembangunan perdesaan adalah bagian integral dari pembangunan Indonesia, hakekat pembangunan adalah pembangunan manusia dan sumber daya manusia di perdesaan masih sangat rendah sehingga, arah pembangunan desa sebaiknya mengutamakan manusia dan penciptaan lapangan kerja. Penelitian ini bertujuan (1)  mengetahui fasilitas yang dibutuhkan oleh masyarakat perdesaan sebagai prasarana belajar, (2) menemukan rumusan kawasan binaan kampung kerja sebagai kawasan aglomerasii pendidikan sebagai upaya peningkatan kualitas sumber daya masyarakat desa. Penelitian ini diselenggarakan di Kabupaten Muna dan metode penelitian ini berlandaskan pada paradigma post-positivisme yakni metode studi kasus pendekatan kualitatif dimana aspek – aspek yang dianalisis adalah angkatan kerja, sektor ekonomi, kebutuhan bangunan, infrastruktur, dan zonasi keruangan. Penelitian ini menemukan dua temuan (1) kebutuhan akan fasilitas yang dibutuhkan untuk peningkatan kualitas angkatan kerja, (2) rumusan model kawasan binaan kampung pendidikan dan pelatihan kerja sebagai kawasan aglomerasi peningkatan sumber daya manusia perdesaan.Rural development is an integral part of Indonesia's development, the essence of development is human development and human resources in rural areas are still very low so that the direction of rural development should prioritize humans and job creation. The objetives of this research are (1) find out the facilities needed by rural communities as learning infrastructure, (2) find the formulation of the working area of the working village as an educational agglomeration area as an effort to improve the quality of rural community resources. This research was conducted in Muna Regency and this research method was based on the post-positivism paradigm, a case study method of qualitative approach where the aspects analyzed were labor force, economic sector, building needs, infrastructure, and spatial zoning. This study found two findings (1) the need for facilities needed to improve the quality of the workforce, (2) the formulation of the model of the village built area of education and job training as an agglomeration area to increase rural human resources.  

scholarly journals Developing partnerships in a paradigm shift to achieve conservation reality in South Africa

Koedoe ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Els ◽  
J. Du P. Bothma
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Rural Community Development ◽  
The Social

In South Africa, communal rural community development has, for the most part, been viewed as an add-on, rather than as an integral value in the broad spectrum of conservation activities being practised in the country. This paper, therefore, argues for the reality-based adoption of an extension of existing conservation paradigms to incorporate the development of communal rural communities as an integral part of the overall wildlife conservation and management policy in South Africa. The answer to the seeming contradiction in the focus of wildlife conservation and rural development lies in the devel- opment of wildlife management programmes based on multi-disciplinary and multiinstitutional interaction, by also harnessing scientific knowledge and skills found in the social sciences. In this manner, the present largely lip service related to so-called com- munity participation in wildlife management can be changed into programmes which really achieve conservation-based community development enhancing survival for both the communities and their inherent natural resources.

scholarly journals Development possibilities of rural tourism activities in the Almaj Valley area, Caras-Severin County

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Tabita Cornelia Adamov ◽  
Tiberiu Iancu ◽  
Luminița Pîrvulescu ◽  
Ioan Brad ◽  
Gabriela Popescu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
The South ◽  
Tourist Infrastructure ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Cultural Monuments ◽  
Valley Area

Rural tourism and agrotourism have an extremely important contribution in rural area’s development, not only in financial terms but also in terms of increasing and improving the quality of life of residents from these areas. So, the development of these forms of tourism is required in the rural area, both economically and socially. Known as an important ethnographic area of the country, with traditional elements specific, Almaj Valley through natural and cultural potential available, it stands more and more lately by intensifying rural tourist and ecotourist activity. However, tourist infrastructure is very underdeveloped, to rural communities returning the mission to get more involved in this purpose, having in view, the national and international recognition of the high tourism potential of this area Romanian area still retains, quite well, the traditional, cultural, ethnographic and folklore valences specific to rural areas, providing favorable conditions for development of rural tourism and agrotourism. Romanian villages have a rich tourist potential, having diversified tourist resources: traditions, customs and folk values, cultural monuments, historical and art and an unpolluted natural environment with a rich natural tourism potential. Almajului Depression known as well as the Almaj Country, Almajului Valley or Bozovici Depression is situated in the South-East side of Banat Mountains, in the south of Caras-Severin county, near the Parallel 45°, being an intramountainous depression, of ellipsoidal form of NE-SW orientation, belonging to Nera basin.

Measuring the quality of life in rural community development

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Barnard ◽  
J. N. K. Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Community Development

The Effectiveness of Decentralisation on Community Development in Ghana, 1990–2012

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-104
Author(s):  
Mohammed Sulemana ◽  
Kingsford Gyasi Amakye
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Developmental Progress ◽  
The People ◽  
Central District ◽  
The Relationship

The concept of decentralisation has shaped development thinking in contemporary times in both developed and developing countries. Indeed, the demand for decentralisation is strong throughout the world because of its link to community development and improving the quality of life of mass of the people in the rural areas. Decentralisation is globally recognised as the way of ensuring community participation and local development. However, some authors argue that the purported benefits of decentralisation leading to community development are not as obvious as proponents of decentralisation suggest. In Africa, decentralisation is implemented in various forms by governments across the continent. Indeed, in West Africa, it is difficult to find a country that does not have decentralisation programme. In Ghana, decentralisation has been practiced since 1988 and the populace has come to embrace it as the best way of ensuring development and local participation in governance. Nevertheless, after nearly three decades of implementing decentralisation, which has generated rather elaborate structures and processes, Ghana still struggles to realise the expected developmental progress, or achieve the envisioned structural and procedural effectiveness. This paper explores the relationship between decentralisation and community development in Sekyere Central District. Again the paper seeks to find out the contributions decentralisation has brought to the communities in Sekyere Central District and finally investigate whether decentralisation is working as it should in the district. This paper was carried out using a mixed method approach. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select all the assembly members in Sekyere Central District. Both primary and secondary data were collected from the relevant sources in an effort to meet the objectives of the study. The regression analysis of all the assembly members indicated that, the calculated value F is 28.25 at 5% alpha level of significant (0.000). It shows that there is significant relationship between decentralisation and community development.

scholarly journals Determinants of Residents’ Support for Sustainable Tourism Development: Implications for Rural Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunja Demirović Bajrami ◽  
Adriana Radosavac ◽  
Marija Cimbaljević ◽  
Tatiana N. Tretiakova ◽  
Yulia A. Syromiatnikova
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Life ◽  
The Republic

One of the key factors for success of sustainable tourism industry in all areas, including rural, is the support of community members. The paper aims to analyze how rural residents’ perceptions of sustainable tourism development (expressed through economic, social, environmental, and physical benefits) can affect residents’ intentions to support tourism. The second aim was to determine if attachment to the particular community and perceived quality of life can have influence on attitudes towards sustainable development of tourism in rural communities. Using a sample of 881 residents living in rural areas of the Republic of Serbia, the results highlighted that perceived values of tourism were important for evaluating how tourism is developed, if it is sustainable for a community, and how it affects quality of residents’ life. The study provided better understanding of factors that can have impact on residents’ attitudes in relation to tourism and highlighted the importance of paying attention to local community as significant player for tourism development, especially in those regions that want to boost its economy by developing sustainable tourism.

scholarly journals Cultural and social accomplishments of agricultural companies as contributions to the development of rural areas

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Petra Maier ◽  
Jaroslav Homolka ◽  
Éva Darabos ◽  
Ildikó Tikász ◽  
Károly Pető ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Life

Agricultural companies play a key role in enriching the cultural and social life of the rural areas in which they function. Therefore, these companies serve towards preserving a quality of life necessary for rural communities to survive and to develop rural areas. However, the financial, human resource and material expenditures necessary to sustain rural communities are difficult to quantify. These studies, on the basis of internationally focused case studies, attempt to measure, systemize and evaluate the charitable engagement of farmers.

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