Determining and explaining rural development strategies in the territory of nomads (case study: Khalkhal County)

At present, the villages of Iran, due to their characteristics and talents, have needed to improve their identification of strengths and opportunities at the local level. In this regard, Khalkhal County also has a high percentage of rural population. Considering the necessary potentials for a desirable rural life, it faces many challenges in dimensions (economic, sociocultural, environmental, physical and institutional management), for which measures have not been considered so far.

Purpose of the research: The current research aims to determine and explain the strategies of rural development in the territory of nomads in Khalkhal County.

In terms of the purpose, the current research is considered part of applied research, and in terms of method, it is part of qualitative and quantitative methods. The statistical population of the current research includes two parts, the first part is all rural settlements in Khalkhal county. Due to the nature of the project and for the purpose of complete recognition, a full count has been made. The second part: there are expert people in the group (university professors, experts in the field of rural development), informed and knowledgeable people (members of village councils and villagers), who based on a targeted sampling of 30 people as a sample community in this section was determined.

Geographical area of research:

 It has been investigated in the territory of the nomads of Khalkhal County.

A total of 50 strengths have been identified in Khalkhal villages. Among the strengths of economic and physical-spatial factors with 30% impact, the most compelling strengths and institutional-management factors with 0.4 were the least effective. Also, 53 opportunity points were identified in the rural settlements of this city. Among the opportunity points, the sociocultural factor was the most effective, with 30.19 percent, and the institutional-management factor was the least effective, with 0 percent. Finally, the results showed that among the proposed strategies, the development of small businesses for rural women had been assigned the most important in Khalkhal's rural development, considering the villages' facilities and power.

Rural areas of Khalkhal will only develop by paying enough attention to the investigation of rural areas in economic, social, environmental, physical and institutional management dimensions.