Local Agricultural Markets for Sustainable Rural Development in Iran

Year 2019, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 74 - 90, 01.06.2019

Farhood Golmohammadi

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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