Sustainable agriculture as a priority in the fight against poverty and improving the quality of life of the rural population

Issue № 1, 2024, article № 11, pages 103-109

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Language: Russian

Original language title: УСТОЙЧИВОЕ СЕЛЬСКОЕ ХОЗЯЙСТВО КАК ПРИОРИТЕТНОЕ НАПРАВЛЕНИЕ В БОРЬБЕ С БЕДНОСТЬЮ И ПОВЫШЕНИИ КАЧЕСТВА ЖИЗНИ СЕЛЬСКОГО НАСЕЛЕНИЯ

Keywords: POVERTY, QUALITY OF LIFE, AGRICULTURE, RURAL AREAS, PUBLIC POLICY

Abstract: The relevance of the article is due to the need to create conditions for sustainable agricultural development, as the most important direction of state policy to ensure the country's food security and one of the necessary conditions for improving the quality of life of citizens and reducing poverty. In his Address to the Federal Assembly of February 20, 2019, President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin noted that... "the key, long-term factor in sustainable agricultural growth, of course, should be an increase in the quality of life of people who work in the countryside». In a broad concept, the quality of life includes quite a few aspects. This is the health on which a person's life expectancy depends, his nutrition, the quality of education, cultural and spiritual satisfaction with life. The growth of income and wage disparities between urban and rural areas is more concentrated in agriculture and rural areas. This restrains economic growth in the agro-industrial complex and gives rise to such a negative phenomenon as poverty. The decline in agricultural production in recent decades has negatively affected the quality of life support of the rural population, which is significantly lagging behind the urban level. At the same time, this problem of the Russian village is observed in the presence of large resources. Agriculture will not be able to develop without consolidating people in the countryside and without a competent and consistent state policy, which should solve the triple task "Sustainable agriculture - High standard of quality of life in the countryside - Reducing rural poverty".

Authors: Rodnina Natalia Vladimirovna