OVERCOMING RURAL POVERTY AS A FACTOR IN ENSURING STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY OF RURAL AREAS

Issue № 1, 2024, article № 20, pages 194-203

Language: Russian

Original language title: ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЕ БЕДНОСТИ НА СЕЛЕ КАК ФАКТОР ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ СТРАТЕГИЧЕСКОЙ УСТОЙЧИВОСТИ СЕЛЬСКИХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ

Keywords: AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, POVERTY, REPRODUCTION, DIVERSIFICATION OF THE RURAL ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, STAFFING, COOPERATION, PEASANT FARMS, PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD PLOTS, SMALL-SCALE PRODUCTION, VILLAGE, RURAL COOPERATION, RURAL TERRITORY, RURAL ECONOMY, RURAL LIFESTYLE, RURAL WAY OF LIFE, RURAL LIFE, SYSTEM, RURAL SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, SOCIAL SYSTEM, STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY, TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Abstract: The article examines the main directions of combating rural poverty from the point of view of the strategic development of rural areas and ensuring their strategic sustainability. It is noted that poverty as a social phenomenon has become an aspect characteristic of most rural areas in Russia. However, as interdisciplinary research shows, poverty is not a characteristic or sign of rural areas. The article identifies the main directions of overcoming poverty as a social phenomenon. Based on the analysis of current scientific and methodological literature, the definition of the concept of poverty in rural areas has been clarified and formulated, and essential basic features and main manifestations of this social phenomenon in rural areas in modern Russian conditions have been identified. Using the example of a number of rural settlements and inter-settlement territories, the article analyzes the features of the development of rural territories as social systems in terms of ensuring their strategic socio-economic sustainability. It was noted that ensuring both employment in rural areas and resolving issues of social infrastructure development is of significant importance in the fight against poverty. At the same time, the work identifies the essential and even decisive importance for overcoming rural poverty of such factors as the preservation, development and provision of a rural way of life, a rural social structure, rural life and the conduct of traditional rural economic activities. The work indicates that this factor is decisive from the point of view of living in the countryside and conducting economic activities there for the majority of both modern Russian villagers and Russian citizens who want to move to the village and start production activities there. In this regard, the article formulates a number of recommendations to ensure the preservation and development of the rural way of life, rural social structure, rural living and economic activity. In particular, conclusions are drawn that from the point of view of ensuring the strategic sustainability of rural areas, it is extremely important for the state, along with resolving issues of employment, diversification of the rural economy, creating new jobs, as well as ensuring the development of the social sphere of the village, to concentrate its attention on the formation of social a layer of rural workers who carry out both production activities in the countryside and implement the reproduction of the rural way of life, the rural social structure and rural life in Russian rural areas. The article separately notes the need for advanced staffing of this activity, which allows, among other things, professional retraining of citizens working in peasant (farm) farms, personal subsidiary plots, as well as in agricultural cooperatives and other associations in the countryside.

Authors: Novichkov Nikolai Vladimirovich, Novikov Vladimir Gennadevich, Novichkova Aleksandra Vladimirovna, Savchenko Ekaterina Andreevna, Sidorenko Sergei Viktorovich