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Sustainability

Economic and social wealth is maintained over time, ensuring the quality
of life across generations. Economic and social wealth is understood as the
social value of all assets that contribute to the quality of human life, including
assets created by people (commodities from production activities, financial
activities, etc.) and natural resources. Human use of natural resources must
help conserve or restore natural resources to create ecosystems of goods
and services that contribute to the quality of human life. Therefore, decision-
making must consider long-term costs and benefits rather than short-term
profits from using people’s assets.

Development or inclusive growth is regions and community members. It will
significant in developing agriculture and require stronger orientation, investment and
rural areas. One of the fundamental problems better support from other economic sectors
of rural development in particular and for agricultural production and rural areas,
economic development in general today is the thereby creating favourable conditions for
increasing gap between regions, rural and agriculture and agriculture to develop quickly
urban areas, ethnic groups, income between and sustainably in the long term. Therefore,
agriculture and other sectors, and the lowest this Strategy sets the point of “narrowing the
and highest income groups in society. An income gap between rural and urban areas”,
inclusive growth mindset will be the focus and one of the orientations and essential tasks
of activities to create equal opportunities for is “inclusive development, ensuring equity
the disadvantaged groups in society, which and social welfare in the countryside”.
are mainly concentrated in rural areas, thus
reducing the gap between geographical

2424 Guidelines for the Strategy for sustainable agriculture and rural development
Guidelines for the Strategy for sustainable agriculture and rural development
in the period 2021-2030, and vision to 2050
in the period 2021-2030, and vision to 2050