INTERNATIONAL 8th USBİLİM EDUCATION, ECONOMY, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CONGRESS
EVALUATIONS ON GLOBAL POVERTY AND DEPRIVATION PROCESSES OF FOREST VILLAGERS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF DEVELOPMENT PLANS
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Akademik Paylaşım Platformu Publishing House - APP Publications
Although there has been much research on poverty and a convergence of strategic and managerial understandings of poverty reduction, there is little consensus on the definition and scope of poverty. In this respect, poverty should be evaluated not only from the economic perspective of malnutrition or hunger but also from the perspective of people’s lack of resources for social and physical values. Deprivation, on the other hand, is a process that results in poverty due to the absence, limitation, or difficulty of access to opportunities such as facilities and assets that can provide quality of life; physical or environmental factors such as infrastructure and geographical conditions; sociological and even ethnic and psychological factors arising from traditional, cultural, etc. phenomena. It is known that the processes of poverty and deprivation in forest villages have gained a negative momentum and it is seen that plans, programs, and projects are produced to reduce this situation. At this point, it is worth examining how the concepts of poverty and deprivation in forest villages are addressed in development plans, one of the main policy documents. The study is qualitative research based on the analysis of documents obtained from secondary sources. The data sources in the study consisted of written documents consisting of development plans. Within the scope of the study, content analysis of twelve development plans prepared between 1963 and 2024 was carried out and the original study data set obtained was evaluated. The stages of data analysis are review, detailed examination, and interpretation of the documents. The study aims to analyze how global poverty and deprivation processes for forest villagers are addressed in development plans. In addition to acknowledging the poverty of forest villagers in the development plans, it was seen that “Development of Forest Villagers” was planned as one of the development objectives. The findings of the study were evaluated in 13 different categories: cooperatives, peasant property cadastre, public participation in forest cultivation, forest villager development, technical and financial support to forest villagers, supply of cheap blades (support), encouragement of private forest establishment, support for social and community forestry activities, legislative change, sale of degraded forest land, improving disadvantaged positions, labor productivity, education. In line with the findings of the study, a proposed model to reduce poverty and deprivation of forest villagers was presented. The elements envisaged to be included in the model that can be applied in the measurement of poverty and deprivation in forest villages are; 1) determination of the population rates of forest villages, 2) determination of the capacity of the resource utilization distribution that causes population and the level of exceeding the capacity that will cause suppression in forests, 3) determination of the geographical inadequacy conditions of the area, 4) determination of educational elements and educational tendencies (basically knowing the economic cycles of production-marketing-tax obligations etc. necessary to meet the vital needs and providing the ability to recognize, determine and express the problem to overcome the bottlenecks in the economic cycles in contact with the relevant public institutions and to determine the solution), 5) communication elements and education trends. economic cycles and to be able to determine the solution by providing the competence to be able to recognize, determine, and express the problem to overcome the blockages in the economic cycles in contact with the relevant public institutions), 5) determination of communication elements (in terms of being aware of the markets in terms of entrepreneurship, being aware of the opportunities that can be evaluated and being able to evaluate the opportunities), 6) determination of infrastructure facilities, 7) determination of transportation elements and facilities, 8) determination of the existing technical equipment and facilities of the people.
