Local Agricultural Markets for Sustainable Rural Development in Iran

Authors : Farhood GOLMOHAMMADİ
Pages : 74-90
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Publication Date : 2019-06-01
Article Type : Research Paper
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.
Keywords : Agriculture, Iran, Local markets, Rural, Sustainable, Development, Iran

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