Career Diversification and its existing Challenges in Sustainable Rural Development from the Perspective of Experts (Case study: Villages of Langruod County)

Subject Areas : Rural and nomadic studies

habib -o - lah rezadoost ¹ , alireza estelaji ² , Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari ³ , majid shareeatpanahi ⁴

1 - Ph.D in Geography & Rural Planning, Yadgar Imam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahr Rey, Iran
2 - Professor Department of Geography, Yadgar Imam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahr Rey, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Yadgar Imam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahr Rey, Iran

Received: 2020-07-07 Accepted : 2021-02-01 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: Experts, Diversification, Delphi, Careers,

Abstract :

In most developing countries, the agricultural sector plays an important role in generating income and job opportunities to meet the needs of rural areas. So that the lack of diversity in economic contexts and job opportunities is one of the most important features of the country's villages. In this regard; the approach of diversifying rural economic activities should be considered as a useful solution. The aim of this study was to identify the challenges of diversification of economic activities in Langroud township . In this study, the Delphi method was used in two stages and 15 experts were purposefully selected to do this research. In order to analyze the most important challenges from the perspective of experts in this article, in the first stage, open-ended questions were used for 16 experts. In the second round, using content analysis of the results of the first stage, the second stage questionnaire was designed using the Likert scale. In this study, a panel of experts identified 113 problems in the development and diversification of rural employment. The results showed that the most important problems were "lack of close relationship between science and knowledge owners with producers and rural business owners, lack of motivation to do agricultural activities, lack of accurate, scientific and classified knowledge of employment-related officials about the concept of diversification in rural communities and lack of stability in the programs and executive policies in the villages of Langroud township" which resulted in a lack of job diversity.

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