Why rural development policies have not contributed to rural development in Iran

Badri, S A; Kazemi, Nasrin; Parvin, K. S. Khatheeja; Ali, Mohammadnejad

doi:10.1080/10371656.2021.1997423

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“…These outcomes of the project's initiatives and vision are summarised in Table 7. Rural areas in Iran are losing their population to out-migration [40]. Young rural generations are leaving villages and seeking better education, health and lifestyle in cities after witnessing their older generations suffering from droughts, water shortage, poverty and health issues.…”

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A Social Dimension of Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change: Empowering Local Rural Communities to Confront Extreme Poverty

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2023

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Climate change impacts occur at varying spatial scales requiring appropriately scaled responses. In impoverished rural areas, adapting to or mitigating the effects of climate change is challenging, with any short-term impairment to precarious livelihoods likely triggering negative community responses even if people are aware of long-term benefits. The paper will discuss a community-based carbon sequestration project in eastern Iran. It started in 2003 and since then has been expanded widely. It was nominated by UNDP as one of 10 transformative projects in Asia/Pacific in 2016. Over the past 20 years, the project has targeted improving the livelihood of the local communities while addressing local measures to adapt to/mitigate climate change. The paper elaborates on the formation of village development groups as pivotal drivers of success by highlighting local income-generating schemes and project documentation. Key lessons for climate change adaptation can be learnt and are applicable to other developing countries. Extreme poverty in rural areas facing climate change could be tackled through implementing bottom-up approaches in which local communities can be respected and engaged in co-leadership and planning.

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“…These two issues were general phenomena across all rural areas in Iran. The project area resembled other rural areas as decades of governmental neglect had created social and economic vacuums in rural areas, leading to mass migration to Iranian cities [40].…”

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A Social Dimension of Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change: Empowering Local Rural Communities to Confront Extreme Poverty

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2023

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“…When policies and systems fail to adapt to the new situation of rural development, it will inevitably lead to difficulty in exerting rural resource advantages and hinder the process of rural transformation development. Integration of urban and rural household registration systems, education policy, social security policy, as well as the adoption of financial discount policy, and so on can effectively guide various factors to flow to rural areas and are an important policy guarantee to realize rural transformation development [50,51]. At present, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt attach importance to rural planning and construction, establish and improve supporting policies for rural transformation development and effectively promote rural transformation development from the perspective of macro policy guidance.…”

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Spatial–Temporal Differentiation and the Driving Mechanism of Rural Transformation Development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Zhang

2022

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Rural transformation development is an important part of rural revitalization, and the study of spatial–temporal differentiation characteristics and the driving mechanism of rural transformation development can provide a decision-making reference for formulating rural revitalization programs according to local conditions. Taking the Yangtze River Economic Belt as the research case, we constructed an evaluation system of rural transformation development in the dimension of “population, land and industry”, and the entropy TOPSIS method, spatial autocorrelation model and geographic detector model were used to reveal spatial-temporal differentiation and the driving mechanism of rural transformation development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 1978 to 2018. The results showed that (1) rural transformation development has been significantly unbalanced in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and rural transformation development showed a weak distribution. Moreover, in terms of dimensions, the land use transformation level > population development transformation level > industrial development transformation level. (2) On the global, rural transformation development presented a spatial distribution trend of club convergence. On the local, the H(High)–H(High) type was mainly distributed in Shanghai City and the southern part of Jiangsu Province, and it evolved to Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Ningbo and Wanjiang City Belt; the L(Low)–L(Low) type was mainly concentrated in the western part of Sichuan Province and in the southwest of Yunnan Province. (3) Natural conditions, economic social development, traffic accessibility, policies and systems were the leading factors affecting rural transformation development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The influences of economic social development and traffic accessibility on rural transformation development were increasing, and policy factors had an important guiding effect on rural transformation development, and the influence of natural conditions on rural transformation development has weakened. This study can provide a practical reference for rural transformation and rural revitalization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

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Why rural development policies have not contributed to rural development in Iran

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

A Social Dimension of Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change: Empowering Local Rural Communities to Confront Extreme Poverty

A Social Dimension of Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change: Empowering Local Rural Communities to Confront Extreme Poverty

Spatial–Temporal Differentiation and the Driving Mechanism of Rural Transformation Development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Key Actors of Geoheritage Conservation in Tourism Destinations

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