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What are the Necessary Ingredients to Achieve Rural Economic Development?

What are the Necessary Ingredients to Achieve Rural Economic Development?. Paul Lasley, Professor and Chair Department of Sociology Iowa State University. What are the barriers to achieve rural economic development?. Establishing the Need for Rural Economic Development?. Defining the need

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What are the Necessary Ingredients to Achieve Rural Economic Development?

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  1. What are the Necessary Ingredients to Achieve Rural Economic Development? Paul Lasley, Professor and Chair Department of Sociology Iowa State University

  2. What are the barriers to achieve rural economic development?

  3. Establishing the Need for Rural Economic Development? • Defining the need • Changes in the population • Income statistics • Employment opportunities • Workforce characteristics • Standard of living indices • Quality of life measures

  4. What is development? • Process to raise the level of living • Improvements in productivity or efficiency • Enlarging the opportunity structure • Economic Growth

  5. What is rural economic development? • Efforts to improve the well-being of rural people through comprehensive programs to utilize natural and human resources more effectively

  6. What is rural economic development? • Economists tend to emphasize increased productivity • Sociologists emphasize improved conditions of living and the expansion of opportunities for self-realization

  7. Who are the key stakeholders in rural development that can make things happen? • Public Agencies • Federal • State • Local

  8. Key stakeholders (continued) • Private-public groups • Chamber of Commerce • Local economic developers • Industrial development

  9. Community Development Agricultural Development Human Development Mainstreet Development DEVELOPMENTACTIVITIES Economic Development Small Business Development Industrial Development

  10. How to get these groups together • How to build a cohesive network among the various stakeholders • Strategies to achieve collaboration and cooperation • Building networks

  11. The presence of organized groups is necessary but not sufficient • Must be some agreement on the need • Commitment to working together • Collaboration doesn’t just happen • There must be leadership as well as “followership”

  12. What types of appeals will cause people to work together? • Threats---If we don’t do something, then…. • Providing hope for a better tomorrow • Need to provide opportunities

  13. Traits of successful communities • Commitment • Persistence • Higher levels of social capital • Willingness to seek outside assistance • Inclusiveness • Strong cultural identity

  14. Change is difficult to accept? • Why is change difficult? • “We love progress, but hate change” • Too often change has meant losses to rural places • Change is never neutral in its impacts; it causes gains for some and losses for others.

  15. People generally profess their desire for progress and yet hate change • WHY? • In many cases change has not meant gain • and too often change has meant loss

  16. Need to tie development to creating opportunities for the future • Investments today are for those who follow us • Is there a diminished sense of deferred gratification? • Expectations for immediate payoff • Judgments are too often made by standards of “presentism”

  17. Scarcity of opportunities and resources creates competition rather than cooperation • Opportunities for everyone • The future is in large part determined by our actions today—tomorrow will reflect what we do today…

  18. Brokering Solutions Among Stakeholders Federal Partners State Agencies Local Government Community Leaders Local Schools Comprehensive Rural Development Citizens Local Lenders Industrial Developers Chamber of Commerce Extension

  19. Trust Trust is earned through: • Open and honest communication • Access to information • Hearing all voices • Encouraging diversity • Dependability

  20. “People tend to support decisions that they help make” Work for Consensus Building Through: • Understanding • Trust • Cooperation

  21. THANK YOU

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