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Sustainable rural development includes From a social perspective, sustainable
developing all social, economic, environmental rural development requires that development
and political aspects, creating capacity and achievements be shared relatively among
opportunities for rural people to participate stakeholders, especially rural communities,
in the political process, comprehensive including disadvantaged groups. Rural
social development and benefit from the development must create equity in power,
development process. At present, modern access to resources and benefits. They are
perspectives emphasize the combination of preserving and developing cultural heritage,
improving socio-economic living standards creating an inherited culture based on
for rural residents, especially the poor and people’s history, folklore and religion, beliefs,
environmentally sustainable, and take people long-standing practices, culinary traditions,
as the center for multi-sector development. art, craft and industry. This heritage varies
widely between regions and between ethnic
The four social, economic, environmental
and institutional pillars are the driving force of communities. The diversity of cultural heritage
makes localities have their characteristics,
sustainable rural development and the goals creating an attraction to develop local cultural
to be achieved by the rural area, thereby tourism as an additional economic source to
creating the result of increased growth and the rural economy.
decreased poverty. Creating these dynamics
is also the content that rural development Regarding the environment, agricultural
programs must aim at to improve rural production in rural areas depends on natural
residents’ overall quality of life. resources, biodiversity of natural ecosystems
and agro-ecosystems. Sustainable agriculture
Economically, rural development has a
solid and robust economic foundation, and development and natural resource protection
are two interrelated issues. In developing
stable and sustainable growth, gradually sustainable agriculture, it is necessary to
reducing the income gap between urban protect natural resources; on the contrary, to
and rural areas and different groups of rural maintain the capacity of natural resources in
residents. Rural economic growth also means the long term, agriculture must be produced
pro-poor economic growth. Rural economic in sustainable ways that do not cause or
development can be observed through minimize adverse environmental impacts.
the following aspects: (i) having a solid
economic infrastructure as the foundation In terms of institutions, modern rural
for development; (ii) efficient distribution development conceptions believe it must be
of production resources while still paying based on taking people as the centre. Rural
attention to the equity aspect; (iii) having a residents are both beneficiaries and subjects
well-developed agriculture; (iv) developed of the rural development process. Therefore,
and diversified non-agricultural economy rural development is also a process with close
associated with the agricultural economy; (v) interaction between state institutions, local
diverse and efficient rural services; and (vi) institutions and rural residents, allowing for fair
stable, low-vulnerability rural livelihoods. and reasonable sharing of power and respect

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