Comprehensive analysis of the interrelationship between economic and socio-cultural aspects of farming
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Farming is a special professional and social group of the population that forms a unique way of life, ensures food security and promotes the development of rural areas. The relationship between the economic, social and cultural components of the life world of farming in modern Russia is poorly studied and is of scientific and practical interest for economic and sociological research. The article studies the life world of farmers through the analysis of basic economic and social indicators of the functioning of the agro-food complex of Russia. The importance of studying the life world of farmers in the context of socio-economic processes and the conditions of their functioning is noted. The relationship between the social group structure, the quality of human capital and the effectiveness of the institutional system is considered. The article analyzes changes in the number of small agribusiness entities and the area of agricultural land used by farmers. The article reveals trends in a consistent decrease in the number of small farms, and the reasons for the increase in medium and large farms. The article studies indicators of poverty and rural migration. It substantiates the relationship between the quality of farmers' entrepreneurial activity and social well-being. The article considers the social environment of rural areas as an external contour of transformations, and at the same time studies the processes of "aging" of the village and migration of young people from rural areas. The article notes the difference in the mentality of farmers of different generations. It identifies cause-and-effect relationships that have led to the current state of the agro-food complex and the social contour of rural areas. This article selects objective and subjective prerequisites for farmers' life in the space of their everyday life: work, communication, and social well-being. At the same time, it takes into account the uneven development of internal elements of the farming way of life, the presence of both innovations and traditional aspects of rural life.
Authors: Natalia Reshetnikova, Elena Bocharova
Institutions: Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov Research Center
Language: English
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Russian Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W7120989100