Download Past and Future - Rural Development - Lecture Slides and more Slides Human Development in PDF only on Docsity! THE PAST AND FUTURE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT Docsity.com The Rural System • Definition: small settlements < 10K, and space dominated by farms, forests, water, mountain and desert • Rural people: culturally diverse, stratified society (wealth, religion, ethnicity), marginalized segments (women, indigenous, disabled, etc), elite capture of resources & opportunities, • Capital: human, social, physical and natural assets • Rural characteristics: farming as main occupation, cheap labor, high transaction costs, lack of BSS, limited political voice • Economy and sectors: primary, secondary and tertiary • Rural dev indicators: cultural, social, economic, environmental - MDGs, HDI, etc. • Problems of rural areas: has 70% of poor, low national priority, weak political voice of poor, urban elites take advantage, IFIs asleep. Emigration will continue! Docsity.com IRD Constraints (WB 1998) • Lack of government commitment • Adverse policy environment • Neglect of institutional development • Lack of stakeholder and beneficiary participation • Lack of appropriate technologies • Complexity and coordination problem Docsity.com Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) • Goal: – Improve livelihoods & quality of life of rural people, especially small farmers, rural poor, indigenous peoples and other marginalized or vulnerable groups – Produce positive effects & externalities on urban & national dev processes • Principles: – Integrated & interdisciplinary focus based on social, economic and environmental pillars – Learning process integrating modern and indigenous knowledge systems – Stakeholder participation based on democracy/inclusiveness & social accountability, pro-poor and gender sensitivity – Balance of bottom-up and top-down processes, micro vs macro scaling and interfacing – Balance between short-term and long-term priorities – Sector-wide approaches and inter-sectoral complementarities Docsity.com Global Context and Justification of SARD • Brundtland Commission report (1987) • Millennium Summit for MDGs (2000) • World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) • World Food Summits (1996 and 2002) • A Fair Globalization Report (2004) • Development Policy Review, 2001, 19(4) Docsity.com Priorities for Policy Analysis, Action and Mobilization • Strategic visioning based on analysis of plausible future scenarios and expectations • Appropriate favorable policies for SARD, that can enhance access, opportunities, NRs & capacity to manage shocks • Participation of stakeholders such as producers, NGOs, research/ education/ extension orgs, agri-business, and donors • Institutional capacity strengthening for planning, implementation and evaluation • Partnerships among int. & reg. actors, to ensure efficiency & effective impact thru better coherence, collaboration & support for national actors • Mobilization of political commitment and support from key ministries of government, IFIs, IGOs, and others • Policy leadership and management, to make all the above happen. Docsity.com Concluding Comments • Pillars of SARD – Social (equity and poverty of people) – Economic (productivity and competitiveness) – Environmental (“clean development”, natural resources, biodiversity) • Priorities of SARD – Empowerment of poor and marginalized – Creation of opportunity to produce, work and live better – Reduction of insecurity due to natural and man-made hazards (climatic disasters, civil conflict, epidemic diseases, economic shocks, etc) Docsity.com
